reducing the weight of the skull and providing space for the jaw musculature

mandibular

was a species of extinct rhinoceros that lived during the Pleistocene

short mouth

Length 58 mm

Phiomia serridens Variant:Unprimed reducing the weight of thePhiomia serridens was a primitive proboscidean from the Late Oligocene, which lived approximately 3730 million years ago in North Africa, especially in what is now Egypt. It represents an intermediate evolutionary phase in the early radiation of elephantiforms, showing a combination of archaic traits and characteristics that anticipate the morphology of modern elephants. It was a medium sized animal, with a body length of approximately 2. 53 meters