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Dibelodon. Cope, 1884. Pal. Bull. No. 39, p. 2; Proc. Am. Phil.
Soc., XXII, pt. 1, 2-8, Jan., 1885. Type Mastodon shepardi Leidy. Contra
Costa Co., Cal. Last inferior molar. Two-dart+tooth; enamel bands on upper
tusks.
Dinotheritjm (=Deinotherium, preferred). Kaup, 1829. Oken's Isis, 1829, 401-404. Type Deinotherium giganteum, Kaup. = Antoletherium, Falconer, 1868. Pal.
Mem., I, 416. Terrible+wild beast.
Elephas. Linnseus, 1758. Systema Natura;, 10th ed., I, 33, 1758. Type Elephas maximus Linmeus, from Ceylon [Zeylona].
Eubelodon. Barbour, 1914. Neb. Univ. Studies, XIV, No. 2, p. 10. Type E. morriUi, from Neb. (Devil's Gulch). Elongated mandible without tusks; upper
tusks without enamel bands. Well-tusked.
Euelephas (Subg. of Elephas). Falconer, 1857.
Q. J. G. S., Lond., XIII, pt. 4, pp. 315, 317-
318, Nov. 1, 1857. W. L. Sclater, Mamm. S. Africa, I, 317,
1900. New name for Elasmodon, Falconer, 1846,
preoccupied. Spp. 9: 1 living and 8
extinct. Type Elephas planifrons F. and C, Siwalik.
Well (typical)-(-elephant.
Gamphotherium. Gloger, 1841. Hand-u. Hilfsbuch Naturgesch., I, pp. xxxii, 119, 1841. Thomas, Ann. & Mag.
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Nat. Hist., 6th Set·., XV, 191,192, Feb. 1,
1895. Type Mastodon angustidens Cuvier. Mio-' cene, France. See Gomphotherium Bur-
meister, 1837. Bolt+wild beast—in allusion to the conical
tubercles of the molars.
Gomphotherium. Burmeister, 1837. Handbuch Naturgesch., 795, 1837. Type not mentioned; characterized by
tusks in both jaws. See Gamphotherium.
Hemimastodon. Pilgrim, 1912. Pal. Indica, new ser., IV, Mem. 2.
Loxodonta. Cuvier, 1827.
Zool. Jour., Ill, 140, Jan., 1827.
"Loxodonte," Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm, VI, Livr. LI, pi., Nov., 1825.
= Loxodon, Falconer, 1857. Q. J. G. S. Lond., XIII, pt. 4, pp. 314-315 (preoccupied).
= Loxo (-disko)-don. Pohlig, Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol., LUI, Nr. 1, pp. 138, 252, 1888.
Type Elephas africanus Blum., from Africa.
Sknting+tooth.
Mammut. Blumenbach, I799. Handbuch Naturgeschichte, 6th ed., p. 698. Type Mammut ohioticum Blumenbach
(=Elephas americanus Kerr, 1792), based
upon remains from the Pleistocene of
Ohio River. Mammut: Tartar word Mammantu,
"ground dweller" (refers to Mammoth).
Mastodon. Cuvier, 1817. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., VIII, 270, 288, pis. 49-56 (1806), 1817; Règne Animal, I, 232-233, 1817.
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