Sinomastodon sendaicus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gomphotherioidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Superordo: Afrotheria Cladus: Paenungulata Cladus: Tethytheria Ordo: Proboscidea Subordo: Elephantiformes Cladus: Elephantimorpha Cladus: Elephantida Superfamilia: †Gomphotherioidea

Familia: †Gomphotheriidae
Genus: †Sinomastodon
Species: †Sinomastodon sendaicus

Name

Sinomastodon sendaicus (Matsumoto, 1924)

Synonymy

• Hemimastodon sendaicus (Matsumoto, 1924): "Takai, 1939" [Wang et al., 2016]
• Mastodon intermedius Teilhard & Trassaert, 1937 [​nom. praeocc. Eichwald, 1831: 361]
• Sinomastodon intermedius (Teilhard & Trassaert, 1937): Tobien, Chen & Li, 1986 [syn. Wang, Li & Zhang, 2021: 296]
• Sinomastodon sendaicus (Matsumoto, 1924): Kamei, 2000
• Trilophodon sendaicus Matsumoto, 1924: 408 [Protonym]
• Zygolophodon sendaicus (Matsumoto, 1924): Kamei, 1991

Type locality: Kitayama, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.

References

Primary references

• Matsumoto, H. 1924. 日本産マストヾンの二新種(略報) [Preliminary notes on two new species of fossil mastodon from Japan] (In Japanese). Journal of the Geological Society of Tokyo 31(375): 395–414. DOI: 10.5575/geosoc.31.375_395 Reference page. 
• Matsumoto, H. 1926. On two new mastodonts and an archetypal stegodont of Japan. Science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University. 2nd series, Geology 10(1): 1–11. hdl: 10097/30188 Reference page.  [pp. 6–9]
• Teilhard de Chardin, P. & Trassaert, M. 1937. The proboscideans of South-Eastern Shanxi. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C 13: 1–58. Reference page. 
• Takai, F. 1939. 本邦新生界産哺乳動物の或ものに就て(其の1) [On some Cenozoic mammals from Japan (Part I)] The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 46(552): 481–489. DOI: 10.5575/geosoc.46.481 Reference page.  [p. 488]
• Tobien, H., Chen, G.-F. & Li, Y.-Q. 1986. Mastodonts (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Neogene and early Pleistocene of the People's Republic of China, part I: historical account: the genera Gomphotherium, Choerolophodon, Synconolophus, Amebelodon, Platybelodon, Sinomastodon. Mainzer Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 15: 119–181. Reference page. 
• Wang, S.-Q., Ji, X.-P., Jablonski, N.G., Su, D.F., Ge, J.-Y., Ding, C.-F., Yu, T.-S., Li, W.-Q. & Duangkrayom, J. "2016" [2015]. The Oldest Cranium of Sinomastodon (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae), Discovered in the Uppermost Miocene of Southwestern China: Implications for the Origin and Migration of This Taxon. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 23: 155–173. DOI: 10.1007/s10914-015-9311-z ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Wang, S., Li, C.-X. & Zhang, X.-X. 2021. On the scientific names of mastodont taxa: nomenclature, Chinese translation, and taxonomic problems. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 59(4): 295–332. ResearchGate Reference page.  [p. 296]

Vernacular names

日本語: センダイゾウ
中文: 仙台中华乳齿象