Giant beast or very large. It was a species of extinct proboscis that lived in the Miocene and Pliocene. It was related to today's elephants, although they differed greatly in the dental structure.
Gomphotherium : Extinct genus of proboscised mammals from the family of gonfotérides who lived in the early Miocene and in the Pliocene em what is now Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.