Selenetherium, whose name means moon mammal, is an extinct genus of elephantid proboscidean. Its type and only species is Selenetherium kolleensis, known from an incomplete mandible found in Early Pliocene sediments of Zanclean age at Kolle in Chad. Because it is known from so little material, the genus tells us little about how it lived, but it adds one more lineage to the many primitive elephantids that shared Africa with the ancestors of the living elephants during the Pliocene.
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Source Selenetherium (Wikipedia)Lead and species accounts, distributionQuote, Lead and species accounts, distribution
sediments of Kolle, Chad
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1. Paleobiology Database: Taxon record for Selenetherium
Paleobiology DatabaseTaxon record, rank
"taxon_rank": "genus"
Taxon record, extant status
"is_extant": "extinct"
Taxon record, first appearance interval
"early_interval": "Zanclean"
Taxon record, taxon size
"taxon_size": 2
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Lead and species accounts, distribution
sediments of Kolle, Chad
Child Taxon Of: Elephantidae, Lead, family
is an extinct genus of elephantid proboscidean
In Group: Other Mammal Genera, Lead, kind of animal
is an extinct genus of elephantid proboscidean
Parent Taxon Of: Selenetherium kolleensis, Species list
The type and only species is Selenetherium kolleensis
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