Saegusaia
| Saegusaia Temporal range: Early–Middle Miocene,
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Clade: | Elephantida |
| Family: | †Amebelodontidae |
| Genus: | †Saegusaia Wang et al., 2025 |
| Type species | |
| †Saegusaia brevirostris (Wang et al., 2015)
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Saegusaia (honoring H. Saegusa) is an extinct genus of proboscidean elephant-like mammals. The genus contains two species, both of which are known from China: the older Saegusaia brevirostris from the Early Miocene and the younger Saegusaia wimani from the Early–Middle Miocene. Both species have a complicated taxonomic history, having been previously assigned to various other genera including Protanancus and Gomphotherium. Modern phylogenetic analyses place Saegusaia closer to Protanancus within the family Amebelodontidae, albeit it a more basal position, while Gomphotherium is part of a sister clade, Gomphotheriidae.