How To Use Proboscidean 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.
The earliest proboscideans lacked any trunk or tusks.
There were once more than 300 species within the family, known as proboscideans, but today only Asian elephants and African elephants still exist.

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.
In addition, because they are believed to be the sister group to proboscideans, their aquatic preferences raise interesting evolutionary questions.
They believe the presence of these proboscideans would restore the balance that existed in Pleistocene times between grazers and large browsers.
The team found several species of archaic proboscideans called Palaeomastodons previously known from 32-million-year-old coastal sediments in Fayum, Egypt.
Hypsodonty has been shown to be a spurious correlate to obligate grazing in previous studies on certain equid and proboscidean taxa as well.