Tetralophodon

Tetralophodon
Temporal range:
Mounted skeleton, Henan Geological Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Superfamily: Elephantoidea
Genus: †Tetralophodon
Falconer, 1857
Species
  • †T. longirostris (Kaup, 1832) (type)
  • †T. curvirostris (Bergounioux and Crouzel, 1960)
  • †T. gigantorostris (Klähn, 1931)
  • †T. punjabiensis (Lydekker, 1886)
  • †T. xiaolongtanensis (Chow and Chang, 1974)
  • †T. euryrostris (Wang, Saegusa, Duangkrayom, He, and Chen, 2017)

Tetralophodon (from Ancient Greek τετρα- (tetra-), meaning "four", λόφος (lóphos), meaning "ridge", and ὀδούς (odoús), meaning "tooth") is an extinct genus of "tetralophodont gomphothere" belonging to the superfamily Elephantoidea, known from the Miocene of Afro-Eurasia. It has been posited to be the ultimate ancestor of Elephantidae.

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