Pediolophodon

Pediolophodon is an extinct gomphotheriid proboscidean genus^[1] from the middle to late Miocene of North America (Nebraska and Texas). Pediolophodon was a close relative of elephants (members of the Elephantinae subfamily of Elephantidae) and would have appeared superficially similar to them, but was not itself a true elephant.

Pediolophodon Temporal range: Serravallian-Tortonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossilized teeth of Pediolophodon campester
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Superfamily:	Elephantoidea
Genus:	†Pediolophodon Lambert, 2007
Type species
Tetralophodon campester Cope, 1877
Other species
Pediolophodon fricki (Osborn, 1936)

Two species are recognized, P. campester and P. fricki. Both were originally assigned to the Old World genus Tetralophodon, but discoveries in the Kepler Quarry, Nebraska, showed these taxa to be generically distinct.^[2][3][1]