Sinomastodon

Sinomastodon
Temporal range:
Skeletal restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Gomphotheriidae
Genus: Sinomastodon
Tobien et al., 1986
Type species
Sinomastodon intermedius
Tobien et al., 1986
Species
  • S. bumiajuensis Van der Maarel, 1932
  • S. hanjiangensis Tang et Zong, 1987
  • S. intermedius (Teilhard and Trassaert, 1937)
  • S. jiangnanensis Wang et al. 2012
  • S. praeintermedius Wang et al., 2016
  • S. sendaicus Matsumoto, 1924
  • S. yangziensis (Chow, 1959)

Sinomastodon ("Chinese mastodont") is an extinct gomphothere proboscidean known from the Late Miocene to Early Pleistocene of Asia, including China, Japan, Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia and probably Kashmir.