Proboscidea

How To Use Proboscidea In A Sentence

• 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.
• The nature and behavior of these proboscideans have also haunted South African naturalist Lyall Watson, who evokes their world in Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant (W. W. Norton).
• If people hunted these animals to extinction, the authors argue, the kill sites should appear along the border between proboscidean and human ranges.
• Under the systems of older naturalists the thick-skinned animals were lumped together under the order UNGULATA, or _hoofed animals_, subdivided by Cuvier into _Pachydermata_, or thick-skinned non-ruminants, and _Ruminantia_, or ruminating animals; but neither the elephant nor the coney can be called hoofed animals, and in other respects they so entirely differ from the rest that recent systematists have separated them into three distinct orders -- _Proboscidea_, _Hyracoidea_ and _Ungulata_, which classification I here adopt. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• The earliest proboscideans lacked any trunk or tusks.
• On the whole, the hedgehog appeared to evolve at a rate not significantly different from those of Primates, Proboscidea, and Rodentia but faster than those of Carnivora, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla.
• There were once more than 300 species within the family, known as proboscideans, but today only Asian elephants and African elephants still exist.
• The narial aperture is thus pushed up, and is short, with an upward direction, as in the Cetacea and Sirenia, with whom the Proboscidea have certain affinities. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• Climate change, then, cannot account for proboscidean extinction "unless one were to invoke serial climatic change that perfectly tracks human global colonization."
• As humans moved north into Eurasia from Africa and, later, south from Alaska across the Americas, proboscidean range contracted correspondingly.