Cuvieronius
Cuvieronius is an extinct New World genus of gomphothere which ranged from southern North America to western South America during the Pleistocene epoch. Among the last gomphotheres, it became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene, approximately 12,000 years ago, following the arrival of humans to the Americas.
| Cuvieronius Temporal range:
Possible Blancan records | |
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| Skull of C. hyodon Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Gomphotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Cuvieronius Osborn, 1923 |
| Species: | †C. hyodon |
| Binomial name | |
| †Cuvieronius hyodon (Fischer, 1814) (conserved name) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cuvieronius
C. hyodon
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