Blancotherium (meaning "Blanco Creek beast") is an extinct genus of gomphotheriid proboscidean from Texas. Originally named Gnathabelodon "buckneri", the genus consists solely of type species B. buckneri.
Blancotherium (meaning "Blanco Creek beast") is an extinct genus of gomphotheriid proboscidean from Texas. Originally named Gnathabelodon "buckneri", the genus consists solely of type species B. buckneri.
== Etymology == Blancotherium's generic name is derived from Blanco Creek, Texas, and the Greek thērion "beast", "animal". The specific epithet is named for the Buckner Ranch, where the holotype was discovered.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).