Platybelodon
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| Platybelodon Temporal range: Miocene |
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| Skeleton exhibited at Hubei province | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Gomphotheriidae |
| Tribe: | †Amebelodontini |
| Genus: | †Platybelodon Borissiak, 1928 |
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Platybelodon is an extinct genus of large herbivorous mammal related to the elephants. The animals are commonly known as a shovel tusker. It lived during the Miocene Epoch, about 25 million years ago in Africa, Europe, Asia and North America.
