Sinomammut

Sinomammut Temporal range: Miocene, 12–11 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Mandible photograph and interpretive drawing.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Family:	†Mammutidae
Genus:	†Sinomammut
Species:	†S. tobieni
Binomial name
Sinomammut tobieni Mothé, 2016

Sinomammut (meaning "Chinese Mastodon") is a proboscidean found in the Miocene of China. It was known from 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 mandible was originally thought a gompothere closely related to Sinomastodon, but an analysis revealed it to actually be a mammutid that was a sister group to the well-known Mastodon. It can be distinguished from the mastodon by its lack of lower tusks.