Sinomastodon
Sinomastodon is an extinct gomphothere proboscidean known from the Late Miocene to Early Pleistocene of Asia, including China, Japan, Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia and probably in Kashmir Valley, India.
Asier Larramendi · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GomphotheriidaePBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Gomphotheriidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Gomphotheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
10 occurrences of Sinomastodon on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
10 occurrences- Miocene20%
- Pleistocene80%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Sinomastodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sinomastodon and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Sinomastodon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
133 taxa- Hystrix4 sites
- Sus4 sites
- Arctonyx collaris3 sites
- Atherurus3 sites
- Cervavitus fenqii3 sites
- Felis3 sites
- Hexaprotodon3 sites
- Hippopotamodon3 sites
- Macaca3 sites
- Megalovis3 sites
- Stegodon preorientalis3 sites
- Ursus thibetanus3 sites
- Ailuropoda microta2 sites
- Ailuropoda wulingshanensis2 sites
- Bos (Bibos)2 sites
- Caprinae2 sites
- Cervidae2 sites
- Cervus2 sites
- Gigantopithecus blacki2 sites
- Gomphotherium2 sites
- Hylobates2 sites
- Megalochelys sivalensis2 sites
- Muntiacus2 sites
- Muntiacus lacustris2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Sinomastodon, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
8 references- The Late Neogene elephantoid-bearing faunas of Indonesia and their palaeozoogeographic implications. A study of the terrestrial faunal succession of Sulawesi, Flores and Java, including evidence for early hominid dispersal east of Wallace's Line2
- Mammalian fossils found in northwest part of Hunan province and their significance2
- A gomphothere (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the Quaternary of the Kashmir Valley, India1
- First occurrence of Duboisia (Bovidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from Thailand1
- New materials of the Late Miocene Muntiacus from Zhaotong hominoid site in southern China1
- New remains of Sinomastodon yangziensis (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae) from Sanhe karst Cave, with discussion on the evolution of Pleistocene Sinomastodon in South China1
- New discoveries of Gigantopithecus blacki teeth from Chuifeng Cave in the Bubing Basin, Guangxi, south China1
- Geochronology of Ailuropoda–Stegodon fauna and Gigantopithecus in Guangxi Province, southern China1
Each of the 10 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Sinomastodon
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Asier Larramendi
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- santsclaus945
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGomphotheriidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tobien et al. 1986