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What is a proboscidean?

What is a proboscidean? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of various large, herbivorous mammals, of the order Proboscidea, that have a trunk; the elephants.
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As humans moved north into Eurasia from Africa and, later, south from Alaska across the Americas, proboscidean range contracted correspondingly.
Discriminating Proboscidean taxa using features of the Schreger pattern in tusk dentin.
The Mountain Breeze Site was identified by a portion of the articular end of a proboscidean long bone eroding out of an arroyo wall near Nogal, New Mexico.
The family tree of elephants, mammoths, and mastodons can be traced back 55,000,000 years to when the proboscidean order originated in Africa.
Falconer does not allow for the proboscidean group being a failing one, and therefore not likely to be giving off new races.
Hypsodonty has been shown to be a spurious correlate to obligate grazing in previous studies on certain equid and proboscidean taxa as well.

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