Selenetherium
Selenetherium | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Family: | Elephantidae |
Subfamily: | †Stegotetrabelodontinae |
Genus: | †Selenetherium Mackaye, Brunet & Tassy, 2005 |
Selenetherium ("moon mammal"[1]) is an extinct genus of elephantid proboscidean.[2][3] The type and only species is Selenetherium kolleensis, known from an incomplete mandible. It was found in the early (Zanclean) Pliocene sediments of Kolle, Chad.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Hassane Taïsso Mackaye, Michel Brunet, Pascal Tassy (2005). "Selenetherium kolleensis nov. gen. nov. sp.: un nouveau Proboscidea (Mammalia) dans le Pliocène tchadien [Selenetherium kolleensis nov. gen. nov. sp.: a new Proboscidea (Mammalia) in the Chadian Pliocene]". Geobios. 38 (6). doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2003.09.010.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ H. T. Mackaye, M. Brunet, and P. Tassy. 2005. Selenetherium kolleensis nov. gen. nov. sp.: un nouveau Proboscidea (Mammalia) dans le Pliocène tchadien. Geobios 38(6):765-777
- ^ van der Made, Jan (2010), "The evolution of the elephants and their relatives in the context of changing climate and geography", in Höhne, D. & Schwarz, W. (eds.), Elefantentreich - Eine Fossilwelt in Europa, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archälogie Sachsen-Anhalt & Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle, pp. 340–360, retrieved 2018-05-02