Amebelodon was a shovel-tusker. But, by 1931, Osborn changed his mind.

The shovel-tusker from Nebraska and the shovel-mouthed proboscidean from Mongolia were different, with Granger’s find more closely resembling Borissiak’s Platybelodon.

Highly complete fossil skull of a typical mid Miocene 'shovel-tusker', Platybelodon grangeri, roamed in large herds across Central Asia 13 million years ago. The specimen is display mounted at the ...