Prodinoceras

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Prodinoceras Temporal range: Late Paleocene
Prodinoceras xinjiangensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Dinocerata
Family:	†Uintatheriidae
Subfamily:	†Uintatheriinae
Genus:	†Prodinoceras Matthew, Granger & Simpson, 1929
Synonyms
Mongolotherium Flerov, 1952 Jiaoluotherium Tong, 1978 Houyanotherium Tong, 1978 Phenaceras Tong, 1979 Ganatherium Tong, 1979 Pyrodon Zhai, 1978

Prodinoceras ("Before Terrible Horns") is the earliest known uintathere genus, which lived in the late Paleocene of Mongolia. It was a relatively small uintathere, reaching 2.9 m (9.5 ft) in length.^[1] It is also regarded as the most basal uintathere, as, although it had the characteristic fang-like tusks, it had yet to evolve the characteristic knob-like horns.

It is very similar to the North American Probathyopsis, which experts regard as its sister genus.

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