Sinomastodon

Sinomastodon
Temporal range: Late Miocene–Early Pleistocene
Skeletal restoration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Gomphotheriidae
Genus: Sinomastodon
Tobien et al., 1986
Type species
Sinomastodon intermedius
Tobien et al., 1986
Species
  • S. bumiajuensis Van der Maarel, 1932
  • S. hanjiangensis Tang et Zong, 1987
  • S. praeintermedius Wang et al., 2016
  • S. sendaicus Matsumoto, 1924

Sinomastodon ("Chinese mastodont") is an extinct gomphothere genus (of order Proboscidea) known from the Late Miocene to Early Pleistocene of Asia, including China, Japan, Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia and probably Kashmir.[1]

  1. ^ Parray, Khursheed A.; Jukar, Advait M.; Paul, Abdul Qayoom; Ahmad, Ishfaq; Patnaik, Rajeev (March 2022). Silcox, Mary (ed.). "A gomphothere (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the Quaternary of the Kashmir Valley, India". Papers in Palaeontology. 8 (2). Bibcode:2022PPal....8E1427P. doi:10.1002/spp2.1427. ISSN 2056-2799. S2CID 247653516.