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Deinotherium
Deinotherium
Deinotherium
Deinotherium
Deinotherium
Deinotherium

Deinotherium

Deinotherium (Deinotherium Kaup, 1829)

 

Order: Proboscidea

Family: Deinotheriidae

Dimensions: length - 7 m, height - 3,5 - 4,1 m,  weight - 8 000 - 13 000 kg

Temporal range: lived during the Late Miocene until the genus' extinction during the Early Pleistocene (Africa, Europe, and Asia)

Species: Deinotherium bozasi (Arambourg, 1934)

               † Deinotherium giganteum (Kaup, 1829)

               † Deinotherium indicum (Falconer, 1845)

               Deinotherium proavum

               Deinotherium thraceiensis sp. nov. (Kovachev, 1964)

 

Deinotherium was one of the most largest land animals of the Late Miocene-Early Pleistocene. The length of the body from different species ranged from 3.5-7 metres, and the height at the shoulders reaching 3-5 m (average 3.5-4 m), and weight can be up 12 000 kg. On the surface they resembled modern elephants but the proportions differed from them. Typically, the trunk was relatively hollow, shortened and remained at high, but massive columnar limbs, indicating they are somewhat different than other Proboscidea functions.

The body is rather short on a long tail. Compared with other Proboscidea Deinotherium had a rather long and flexible neck, which allowed the structure to lift and bend its head and turn it from side to side. This structure is associated with the ability to lift its head up and make its tusks work. In the normal position of the head, it was positioned horizontally and was in the same place with the neck of the animal. It was perhaps one of the most biggest hairless elephants of all time. Compared with the massive body, the skull of Deinotherium was relatively small, with the characteristic tusks in the lower jaw. Projecting from the jaw of the tusks could reach up to 1 m, but was usually smaller. It is not excluded that the tusks were playing an important role in the social life of these animals, acting, for example, as a tournament of arms of males in the breeding season but were used for getting food. Animals could bend down and break off branches from trees, as well as strip bark from tree trunks for eating.

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Deinotherium (Deinotherium Kaup, 1829)

 

Order: Proboscidea

Family: Deinotheriidae

Dimensions: length - 7 m, height - 3,5 - 4,1 m,  weight - 8 000 - 13 000 kg

Temporal range: lived during the Late Miocene until the genus' extinction during the Early Pleistocene (Africa, Europe, and Asia)

Species: Deinotherium bozasi (Arambourg, 1934)

               † Deinotherium giganteum (Kaup, 1829)

               † Deinotherium indicum (Falconer, 1845)

               Deinotherium proavum

               Deinotherium thraceiensis sp. nov. (Kovachev, 1964)

 

Deinotherium was one of the most largest land animals of the Late Miocene-Early Pleistocene. The length of the body from different species ranged from 3.5-7 metres, and the height at the shoulders reaching 3-5 m (average 3.5-4 m), and weight can be up 12 000 kg. On the surface they resembled modern elephants but the proportions differed from them. Typically, the trunk was relatively hollow, shortened and remained at high, but massive columnar limbs, indicating they are somewhat different than other Proboscidea functions.

The body is rather short on a long tail. Compared with other Proboscidea Deinotherium had a rather long and flexible neck, which allowed the structure to lift and bend its head and turn it from side to side. This structure is associated with the ability to lift its head up and make its tusks work. In the normal position of the head, it was positioned horizontally and was in the same place with the neck of the animal. It was perhaps one of the most biggest hairless elephants of all time. Compared with the massive body, the skull of Deinotherium was relatively small, with the characteristic tusks in the lower jaw. Projecting from the jaw of the tusks could reach up to 1 m, but was usually smaller. It is not excluded that the tusks were playing an important role in the social life of these animals, acting, for example, as a tournament of arms of males in the breeding season but were used for getting food. Animals could bend down and break off branches from trees, as well as strip bark from tree trunks for eating.

Reviews (4):
Anuar rex
17.08.2024
what the freak is this elephant!!!. it has downward tusks on its lower jaw . But it is my favorite animal in the austrolaphificus world
Митрич
30.11.2018
О, еще один "криптолог-zoопатолог" UDREA STEFAN-SEBASTIAN выискался, про "криптидных слонов" в Конго говорит и намекает, шо це - "выжившие дейнотерии"... Сам он из ума ВЫЖИВШИЙ, или убежденный del idioto! Кричит, что мол они нижними бивнями, как электрик "когтями-кошками",за деревья цеплялись! Надо же выдавить такую "саркому" в головном мозгу! А вопрос - зачем слону быть брахиальным никого не торкнул? to the dreamer Stefan Sebastian: "We have Russians, they say about" maybe "like this:" Maybe if grandma had a dick, she would have been a grandfather! "
Митрич
02.11.2018
Ром, твои дейнотерии НЕПОВТОРИМЫ! У Буриана они какие-то длиннохоботные, слоноподобные, в сериале BBC- какие-то тапироидные и безобразные, а у тебя - как будто бы в соседнем вольере находятся живьем. Все их разновидности без исключения.
UDREA STEFAN-SEBASTIAN
24.09.2016
Maybe there is indeed a relict population of surving deinotheres în Congolese Swamp Forests that could explain the sightings associated with cryptid water elephant-like creatures. I presumed that deinotheres were well-swimming creatures who used their lower downward-tusks to hang over rivers' shores or floating timbers.