Hemimastodon

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iHemimastodon Fossil range: Late Miocene
Conservation status
Extinct (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 proboscid is uncertain.

[edit] 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.