Pediolophodon

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

Pediolophodon is an extinct elephantoid proboscid genus from the middle to late Miocene of North America (Nebraska and Texas). As part of the family Anancidae 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.

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.[1][2][3]

References

E. D. Cope. 1877. Descriptions of New Vertebrata from the Upper Tertiary Formations of the West. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17:219-231
H. F. Osborn. 1936. The Proboscidea 1 & 2:1-1675.
W. D. Lambert. 2007. New tetralophodont gomphothere material from Nebraska and its implications for the status of North American Tetralophodon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):676-682.

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[1] E. D. Cope. 1877. Descriptions of New Vertebrata from the Upper Tertiary Formations of the West. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17:219-231

[2] H. F. Osborn. 1936. The Proboscidea 1 & 2:1-1675.

[3] W. D. Lambert. 2007. New tetralophodont gomphothere material from Nebraska and its implications for the status of North American Tetralophodon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):676-682.