Hemimastodon

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

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

Its phylogenetic affinity within the proboscidea is uncertain.

References

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