Proboscidea

This is known as the Proboscidea Datum Event as, obviously, it’s the point when African proboscidean groups make their first appearance in Eurasia.

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

This is known as the Proboscidea Datum Event as, obviously, it’s the point when African proboscidean groups make their first appearance in Eurasia.

Why putting your hand in a peccary’s mouth is a really bad idea Darren Naish 2006

The temporal and geographical distribution of Morotochoerus and Schizochoerus indicates that peccaries invaded Africa from Asia during or after the Proboscidea Datum Event, with one lineage then leaving Africa later in the Miocene.

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

The temporal and geographical distribution of Morotochoerus and Schizochoerus indicates that peccaries invaded Africa from Asia during or after the Proboscidea Datum Event, with one lineage then leaving Africa later in the Miocene.

Why putting your hand in a peccary’s mouth is a really bad idea Darren Naish 2006

Proboscidea: A monograph of the discovery, evolution, migration and extinction of the mastodonts and elephants of the world, by Henry Fairfield Osborn

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Fish farms drive wild salmon populations toward extinction - ExpressNews - University of Alberta 2007

I have always thought that their genus name, Proboscidea, is much more appropriate than "devil's claw".

Another Ghost 2005

I have always thought that their genus name, Proboscidea, is much more appropriate than "devil's claw".

Archive 2005-11-01 2005

By selecting seeds of devil’s claw plants (Proboscidea parviflora) with dark, long fibers, the most desirable characteristics for their craft, Tohono O’Odham Native American basket weavers in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico have created several new folk varieties. 40

14. Saving seeds for planting 1991

NABHAN, G.P. and WEBER, C.W. (1981) Domesticated Proboscidea parviflora: A potential oilseed crop for arid lands.

Chapter 5 1953

This is clearly exemplified in the case of the Proboscidea, and many other examples could be quoted.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology