Sinomammut
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| Sinomammut Temporal range: Miocene, | |
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| Mandible photograph and interpretive drawing | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Mammutidae |
| Genus: | †Sinomammut Mothé et al., 2016 |
| Species: | †S. tobieni |
| Binomial name | |
| †Sinomammut tobieni Mothé et al., 2016 | |
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Sinomammut (meaning "Chinese Mammut") is a mammutid proboscidean from the Miocene of China. Only one species, S. tobieni, is known, named in 2016.[1]
It was known from the holotype, specimen GIOTC 0984-9-178, which was a single fragmentary mandible found in the 1990s, however, most of the specimen has been lost, leaving only the right ramus and an in-situ photograph of the mandible. The surviving ramus, known as the "Yanghecun specimen", was collected in 1999 in the Neogene-aged Xihe Linxian Basin in Miocene-aged deposits by Zhao Desi.[2] The left branch of the jaw was lost during the salvage and is only documented by a photo of the fossil in situ.[1]
In 2007, Xie GuangPu, also involved in the initial description, published the find under the scientific name Sinomastodon intermedium.[3] In 2014, GIOTC 0984-9-178 was removed from the genus Sinomastodon but was not placed in another genus, for it was found to have been an indeterminate member of the monotypic Sinomastodontinae family.[2] The type species, Sinomammut tobieni, was named and described by Mothé et al. in 2016.[1]
