Torynobelodon

Torynobelodon Temporal range: Miocene, 15–10  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Teeth of Torynobelodon barnumbrowni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Family:	† Amebelodontidae
Subfamily:	† Platybelodontinae
Genus:	† Torynobelodon Barbour, 1929
Type species
†Torynobelodon loomisi Barbour, 1929
Species
T. loomisiBarbour, 1929 T. barnumbrowniBarbour, 1931 T. dangheesis(Wang and Qiu, 2002)

Torynobelodon is an genus of large herbivorous amebelodontid proboscideans, related to the elephants. It lived during the late Miocene Epoch in Asia and North America.

Taxonomy

Shoshani (1996) placed Torynobelodon as a synonym of Platybelodon, but Lambert and Shoshani (1998) considered it morphologically distinct to be a separate genus. ^{[1] [2]} A 2016 cladistic study found it to be more primitive than either Platybelodon and Aphanobelodon. ^[3]

See also

• Paleontology portal

• Gnathabelodon
• Eubelodon
• Serbelodon
• Amebelodon
• Konobelodon
• Platybelodon

References

1. J. Shoshani and P. Tassy. 1996. Summary, conclusions, and a glimpse into the future. in J. Shoshani and P. Tassy, eds., The Proboscidea: Evolution and Palaeoecology of Elephants and Their Relatives 335-348
2. W. D. Lambert and J. Shoshani. 1998. Proboscidea. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America 606-621
3. Shi-Qi Wang; Tao Deng; Jie Ye; Wen He; Shan-Qin Chen (2016). Morphological and ecological diversity of Amebelodontidae (Proboscidea, Mammalia) revealed by a Miocene fossil accumulation of an upper-tuskless proboscidean. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. Online edition. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1208687.