Sinomammut
Sign in to saveSinomammut (meaning "Chinese Mammut") is a mammutid proboscidean from the Miocene of China. Only one species, S. tobieni, is known, named in 2016.
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It sits within the topics Fossils of China, Fossil taxa described in 2016 and Mammutidae.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Parent taxon
- Mammutidae
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- Sinomammut.jpg
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- Sinomammut
- taxon name
- Sinomammut
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- genus
- start time
- 12000000-0
- end time
- 11000000-0
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- Discovery and naming
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Sinomammut (meaning "Chinese Mammut") is a mammutid proboscidean from the Miocene of China. Only one species, S. tobieni, is known, named in 2016.
==Discovery and naming== left|thumb|250px|Surviving portion of GIOTC 0984-9-178, as seen from three different angles It was known from the holotype, specimen GIOTC 0984-9-178, which was a single fragmentary mandible found in the 1990s, however, most of the specimen has been lost, leaving only the right ramus and an in-situ photograph of the mandible. The surviving ramus, known as the "Yanghecun specimen", was collected in 1999 in the Neogene-aged Xihe Linxian Basin in Miocene-aged deposits by Zhao Desi. The left branch of the jaw was lost during the salvage and is only documented by a photo of the fossil in situ.
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