proboscidians

Elephants inhibit woodland regeneration and promote grasslands, as Pleistocene proboscidians probably once did.

Archive 2005-12-01 2005

Five species of proboscidians (mammoths, mastadons and gomphotheres) once roamed North America in the Late Pleistocene; today many of the remaining African and Asian elephants are in grave danger.

Archive 2005-12-01 2005

Elephants inhibit woodland regeneration and promote grasslands, as Pleistocene proboscidians probably once did.

The Pleistocene Park 2005

Five species of proboscidians (mammoths, mastadons and gomphotheres) once roamed North America in the Late Pleistocene; today many of the remaining African and Asian elephants are in grave danger.

The Pleistocene Park 2005

We speak of both the Indian and the African proboscidians as elephants, although we style "mammoth" the recently extinct hairy elephant of the north, which was more closely related to the Asiatic elephant than the latter is to its African cousin, and although we use the word "mastodon" to denote a more primitive type of elephant also recently extinct in America.

VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant 1916

The earliest forms evolved along diverging lines toward the various specialized types of hoofed mammals, rodents, carnivores, proboscidians, the primates, and the other mammalian orders as we know them now.

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

The great proboscidians of the Glacial epoch were about the size of modern elephants, and somewhat smaller than their ancestral species in the Pliocene.

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

The proboscidians culminated in the Pliocene, when some of the giant elephants reached a height of fourteen feet.

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

Very soon there was not a family -- particularly with children -- in Eden Vale which did not possess one or more tame antelopes, monkeys, or parrots; and elephant cubs, under two years of age, wandered by dozens in the streets and in the public places, the pampered pets of the children, who were remarkably attached to these little proboscidians.

Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

From a monograph on the proboscidians by Dr. Falconer, it appears that this species represents one extreme of a type of which the Pliocene Mastodon borsoni represents the other.

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836