The teeth of the tetralophodon indicate a diet of large fruits and vegetables.
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Like typical gomphotheres, mastodons with four tusks, " Tetralophodon " had four tusks and a trunk.
3.
Some features, mainly concerning the teeth, would seem to place " Tetralophodon " close to the origin of today's elephants.
4.
While the reason for this extinction is still debated, what is known is that these massive elephantoids under the genus " Tetralophodon " did not survive.
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The Japanese species " S . sendaicus " described in 1924 from dentary materials from Pliocene deposits has been ascribed to the genus, as well as the species " S . bumiajuensis " ( formerly " Tetralophodon " ) from the late Pliocene of Java.
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The genera " Anancus ", " Morrillia ", " Paratetralophodon ", and " Tetralophodon ", but also Choerolophodontidae and Amebelodontidae were formerly classified as gomphotheres, but recent work recovers gomphotheres " sensu lato ", as paraphyletic, with tetralophodont gompotheres closely related to Elephantidae and amebelodonts and choerolophodonts more primitive than trilophodont gomphotheres.
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