Prodinoceras

Taxobox
name = "Prodinoceras"
fossil_range = Late Paleocene


image_caption = "Prodinoceras xinjiangensis"
image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Dinocerata
familia = Uintatheriidae
genus = "Prodinoceras"
genus_authority = Matthew, Granger & Simpson, 1929

"Prodinoceras" ("Before Terrible Horns") was the earliest known uintathere genus, which lived in the late Paleocene of Mongolia. It is also regarded as the basal uintathere, as, although it had the characteristic fang-like tusks, it had yet to evolve the characteristic knob-like horns.

It is very similar to its North American counterpart, "Probathyopsis". All experts regard it as "Prodinoceras"' sister genus