Deinotheriidae

Deinotheriidae is an extinct family of proboscideans whose large herbivorous members had distinctive downward-curving tusks in the lower jaw.

Proboscidea: The mammalian order containing elephants and their extinct relatives. Deinotheriidae is one extinct branch of this order.
Dentition: The arrangement and characteristics of an animal's teeth. Deinothere tooth structure provides evidence about diet and evolutionary relationships.
Miocene: A geological epoch spanning about 23 to 5.3 million years ago. Deinotheres diversified widely during this epoch.
Deinotherium giganteum: A species of Deinotherium known from large fossils in Europe and elsewhere. Its remains illustrate the enormous size reached by some late deinotheres.
Deinotherium: An extinct genus of large proboscideans with downward-curving tusks in the lower jaw. It is the best-known genus and includes the family's largest forms.
Herbivore: An animal whose diet consists primarily of plant material. Deinotheres belonged to this broad feeding category.
Pliocene: A geological epoch spanning about 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago. Some deinothere lineages survived into this epoch.
Prodeinotherium: An extinct genus of early deinotheres, generally smaller than later Deinotherium. It represents an earlier stage in the family's fossil record.
Elephantidae: The mammalian family containing living elephants and extinct close relatives. It is a separate proboscidean family, not the lineage to which deinotheres belong.
Paleobotany: The study of fossil plants and their relationships to past environments. Fossil vegetation helps reconstruct the habitats and food available to deinotheres.

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