Torynobelodon

Torynobelodon was a genus of large herbivorous mammal related to the elephant (order Proboscidea). It lived during the late Miocene Epoch in Asia and North America.

Torynobelodon Temporal range: Miocene, 15–10 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Teeth of Torynobelodon barnumbrowni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Family:	†Amebelodontidae
Subfamily:	†Platybelodontinae
Genus:	†Torynobelodon Barbour, 1929
Type species
†Torynobelodon loomisi Barbour, 1929
Species
T. loomisi Barbour, 1929 T. barnumbrowni Barbour, 1931 T. dangheesis (Wang and Qiu, 2002)

Taxonomy

Shoshani (1996) placed Torynobelodon as a synonym of Platybelodon, but Lambert and Shoshani (1998) considered it morphologically distinct to be a separate genus.^[1][2] A 2016 cladistic study found it to be more primitive than either Platybelodon and Aphanobelodon.^[3]

See also

• Paleontology portal

• Gnathabelodon
• Eubelodon
• Serbelodon
• Amebelodon
• Konobelodon
• Platybelodon