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>Favourite Extinct Animals

You could show me any extinct elephant and I'd go "hell yeah", but I do have a distinct fondness for the Gomphotherium. Simultaneously generic, but unique in it's own discreet fashion, wildly successful and well distributed across the planet, and the progenitor to most other elephants.
I'm also somewhat obsessed with Toxodon since I think the fact they evolve "vaguely" into hippos and rhinos in the vacuum of South America to be interesting. That the biosphere *needed* something like a pachyderm that it was going to make it out of a rodent or whatever if possible.