Hsanotherium

Taxobox
name = "Hsanotherium"
status = fossil
fossil_range = middle Eocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Proboscidea
familia = Anthracobunidae
genus = "Hsanotherium"
genus_authority = Ducrocq et al., 2000
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "H. parvum" Ducrocq et al., 2000

"Hsanotherium" is an extinct genus of early proboscidean from the middle Eocene, described in 2000 in the Pondaung Formation, Myanmar.

It is the first anthracobunid to be discovered outside India and Pakistan and to date is the smallest member of the family.

References

* DUCROCQ S.; AUNG NAING SOE; BO B.; BENAMMI M.; CHAIMANEE Y.; TUN T.; THEINE T.; JAEGER J.-J.; First record of an Anthracobunidae (Mammalia, ?Tethytheria) from the Eocene of the Pondaung Formation, Myanmar, Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences. Série 2. Sciences de la terre et des planètes (C. r. Acad. sci., Sér. 2, Sci. terre planet.), 2000, vol. 330, no10, pp. 725-730