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Hemimastodon
Temporal range: Late Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Suborder: Elephantiformes
Family: Hemimastodontidae
Genus: Hemimastodon
Species
  • H. crepusculi (Pilgrim, 1908)

Hemimastodon ("half mastodont") is an extinct genus of proboscidean from the Late Miocene deposits of the Dera Bugti Beds in Pakistan.

Its phylogenetic affinity within other proboscideans is uncertain.

References

  • Tassy, P. 1988. Le statut systématique de l’espèce Hemimastodon crepusculi (Pilgrim): L’éternal problème de l’homologie et de la convergence. Annales de Paléontologie 74: 115–127.
Genera of the order Proboscidea
Proboscidea
Barytheriidae
Deinotheriidae
Elephantiformes
Mammutidae
Choerolophodontidae
Amebelodontidae
"Trilophodont
gomphotheres"
"Tetralophodont
gomphotheres"
Stegodontidae
Elephantidae
Barytherium grave

Mammut americanum

Gomphotherium angustidens
Taxon identifiers
Hemimastodon


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