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Zygolophodon : ウィキペディア英語版 | Zygolophodon
''Zygolophodon'' is an extinct genus of African, Asian, North American and European mastodon that lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs. It may have evolved from ''Tetralophodon''. While collecting fossils in the Clarno Formation of Oregon during 1941, noted paleobotanists Alonzo W. Hancock and Chester A. Arnold recovered the most complete ''Zygolophodon'' skull known at the time.〔(The Oregon History Project Alonzo Hancock entry )〕 It was one of the largest terrestrial mammals of all time. With a shoulder height of and a weight of , it was approached the size of ''Paraceratherium'', and was heavier than several sauropod dinosaurs. ==References==
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