Talk:Gomphotherium

Split

It seems this article is overlumped, but I don't really know what goes where? Any reviews of the situation? FunkMonk (talk) 05:42, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

What would we split off to? If you ask me, I'd recommend removing the species from the taxobox and putting them in a "Species" section.--Mr Fink (talk) 06:11, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure, but I may have mixed it up with some other gomphothere genus. I've requested Lambert 2007 to sort it out. Lister 2007 does not mention this genus as living in North America, so I'm not sure what's going on. FunkMonk (talk) 06:13, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Date of last identifiable skeleton

I'm interested to see the end date of survival has been changed from 3.6 mya to 1.2 mya. What was that based on? I'm asking about this particular genus, not gomphotheres in general. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:38, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Hey Macdonald-ross, the citation clarifying 1.2 MYA is noted with the introduction of China as one of the locations of its inhabitance- reference no. 4. SuperTah (talk) 11:53, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. For some reason I could not access that ref yesterday. Macdonald-ross (talk) 12:47, 2 June 2016 (UTC) P.s. Incidentally, the abstract references 1.7 mya. Macdonald-ross (talk)

Not to worry! I refer you to Page 8, where the only overlapping range of time is 1.2 MYA in Liucheng Cave, where Gomphotherium was found, and the other two older, contemporary caves- 1.2 MYA is the oldest known date in Liucheng Cave, and since Gomphotherium is an antiquitous form, that is the date I used. SuperTah (talk) 00:30, 3 June 2016 (UTC)