Torynobelodon
Temporal range: Miocene, 15–10 Ma
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Teeth of Torynobelodon barnumbrowni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: †Amebelodontidae
Subfamily: †Platybelodontinae
Genus: †Torynobelodon
Barbour, 1929
Type species
†Torynobelodon loomisi
Barbour, 1929
Species
  • T. loomisi Barbour, 1929
  • T. barnumbrowni Barbour, 1931
  • T. dangheesis (Wang and Qiu, 2002)

Torynobelodon was a genus of large herbivorous mammal related to the elephant (order Proboscidea). It lived during the late Miocene Epoch in Asia and North America.

Taxonomy

Shoshani (1996) placed Torynobelodon as a synonym of Platybelodon, but Lambert and Shoshani (1998) considered it morphologically distinct to be a separate genus.[1][2] A 2016 cladistic study found it to be more primitive than either Platybelodon and Aphanobelodon.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ J. Shoshani and P. Tassy. 1996. Summary, conclusions, and a glimpse into the future. in J. Shoshani and P. Tassy, eds., The Proboscidea: Evolution and Palaeoecology of Elephants and Their Relatives 335-348
  2. ^ W. D. Lambert and J. Shoshani. 1998. Proboscidea. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America 606-621
  3. ^ Shi-Qi Wang; Tao Deng; Jie Ye; Wen He; Shan-Qin Chen (2016). Morphological and ecological diversity of Amebelodontidae (Proboscidea, Mammalia) revealed by a Miocene fossil accumulation of an upper-tuskless proboscidean. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. Online edition. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1208687.
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