Proboscidea

How To Use Proboscidea In A Sentence

• Climate change, then, cannot account for proboscidean extinction "unless one were to invoke serial climatic change that perfectly tracks human global colonization."
• Hypsodonty has been shown to be a spurious correlate to obligate grazing in previous studies on certain equid and proboscidean taxa as well.
• The team found several species of archaic proboscideans called Palaeomastodons previously known from 32-million-year-old coastal sediments in Fayum, Egypt.
• The bones belong to an animal in the order Proboscidea - large mammals with trunks - the same order that includes living elephants.
• They believe the presence of these proboscideans would restore the balance that existed in Pleistocene times between grazers and large browsers.
• In addition, because they are believed to be the sister group to proboscideans, their aquatic preferences raise interesting evolutionary questions.
• In this edition, the subungulates are considered to include only the orders Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, and Sirenia.
• African and Asian elephants are the only members of the Order Proboscidea that were not lost in the megafaunal crisis of the late Pleistocene.
• As humans moved north into Eurasia from Africa and, later, south from Alaska across the Americas, proboscidean range contracted correspondingly.
• If climate was the culprit, then people and proboscideans should have shared some of the same territory, at least until climate change shrunk proboscidean habitat.