Hemimastodon

Taxobox
name = "Hemimastodon"
status = Fossil
fossil_range = Late Miocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Proboscidea
familia = Hemimastodontidae
genus = "Hemimastodon"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "H. crepusculi" (Pilgrim, 1908)

"Hemimastodon" ("half mastodont") is an extinct genus of proboscidea from the Late Miocene deposits of the Dera Bugti Beds in Pakistan.

Its phylogenetic affinity within the proboscidea is uncertain.

References

* Tassy, P. 1988. Le statut systématique de l’espèce Hemimastodon crepusculi (Pilgrim): L’éternal problème de l’homologie et de la convergence. Annales de Paléontologie 74: 115–127.