Megabelodon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of proboscid}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Miocene|Pliocene}}

| image = Megabelodon lulli.jpg

| image_caption = M. lulli skeleton

| taxon = Megabelodon

| authority = Barbour, 1914

| type_species = †Megabelodon lulli

| type_species_authority = Barbour, 1914

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• M. cruziensis Frick 1933
• M. joraki Frick, 1933
• M. lulli
• M. minor Barbour 1934
• M. phippsi Cook 1928

}}

Megabelodon is an extinct genus of proboscidean which inhabited North America in from the Miocene to the Pliocene. Specimens were found in Nevada and New Mexico.{{Cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=47963|title=Fossilworks: Megabelodon|website=fossilworks.org|access-date=17 December 2021}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3r8HAwAAQBAJ&q=Megabelodon&pg=PA290|title=Proboscidea|last=Osborn|first=Henry Fairfield|date=1936-01-01|publisher=Рипол Классик|isbn=9785871481677|language=en}} The genus has been disputed, with some paleontologists considering Megabelodon as a synonym of Gomphotherium,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-RgojcDyWYC&q=Megabelodon&pg=PA611|title=Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 1, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate Like Mammals|last1=Janis|first1=Christine M.|last2=Scott|first2=Kathleen M.|last3=Jacobs|first3=Louis L.|date=1998-05-28|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521355193|language=en}} while others have considered it to be a genus of amebelodontid.{{Citation |last1=Li |first1=Chunxiao |title=Longer mandible or nose? Co-evolution of feeding organs in early elephantiforms |date=2023-11-28 |url=https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/90908v1 |access-date=2024-05-29 |journal=eLife |doi=10.7554/eLife.90908.1 |last2=Deng |first2=Tao |last3=Wang |first3=Yang |last4=Sun |first4=Fajun |last5=Wolff |first5=Burt |last6=Jiangzuo |first6=Qigao |last7=Ma |first7=Jiao |last8=Xing |first8=Luda |last9=Fu |first9=Jiao|volume=12 |doi-access=free }}