Selenetherium

{{Short description|Extinct genus of elephants}}

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| taxon = Selenetherium

| authority = Mackaye, Brunet & Tassy, 2005

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Selenetherium ("moon mammal") is an extinct genus of elephantid proboscidean.H. T. Mackaye, M. Brunet, and P. Tassy. 2005. Selenetherium kolleensis nov. gen. nov. sp.: un nouveau Proboscidea (Mammalia) dans le Pliocène tchadien. Geobios 38(6):765-777{{Citation |last1=van der Made |first1=Jan |date=2010 |editor1-last=Höhne |editor1-first=D. |editor2-last=Schwarz |editor2-first=W. |contribution=The evolution of the elephants and their relatives in the context of changing climate and geography |title=Elefantentreich - Eine Fossilwelt in Europa |pages=340–360 |publisher=Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archälogie Sachsen-Anhalt & Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle |contribution-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260869040_The_evolution_of_the_elephants_and_their_relatives_in_the_context_of_changing_climate_and_geography |access-date=2018-05-02 |name-list-style=amp }} The type and only species is Selenetherium kolleensis, known from an incomplete mandible. It was found in the early (Zanclean) Pliocene sediments of Kolle, Chad.{{cite journal|author=Hassane Taïsso Mackaye, Michel Brunet, Pascal Tassy|year=2005|title=Selenetherium kolleensis nov. gen. nov. sp.: un nouveau Proboscidea (Mammalia) dans le Pliocène tchadien [Selenetherium kolleensis nov. gen. nov. sp.: a new Proboscidea (Mammalia) in the Chadian Pliocene]|journal=Geobios|volume=38|issue=6|doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2003.09.010}}