Serbelodon is an extinct genus of African and European Proboscidean. It was a gomphothere "shovel-tusker." It had tusks and a trunk. It lived during the Miocene Epoch, and may have evolved from Amebelodon.
In 1933, Serbelodon burnhami (now Amebelodon burnhami) was newly discovered and named after the celebrated scout Frederick Russell Burnham.[1]
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- ^ Osborn, Henry Fairfield (June 29 1933). "Serbelodon Burnhami, a new Shovel-Tusker from California". American Museum Novitates (639): 1–5. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/2061/1/N0639.pdf. Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
