This is a list of gomphothere fossils found in South America. Gomphotheres were elephant-like mammals that lived from the Middle Miocene (approximately 12 million years ago) to the Holocene (6000 years BP). The following species have been described in twentieth and twenty-first century paleontological literature about South America.An alternative proposal is considered within the scientific community, listed below. Modern classification * Cuvieronius (Osborn 1923) * C. hyodon (Fischer 1814) (type) * Notiomastodon (Cabrera 1929) * N. platensis (Mothé et al. 2012) (type)