''Selenetherium'' ("moon mammal") is an extinct genus of elephantid

proboscidean Proboscidea (; , ) is a taxonomic order of afrotherian mammals containing one living family (Elephantidae) and several extinct families. First described by J. Illiger in 1811, it encompasses the elephants and their close relatives. Three liv ...

.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 The

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and only species is ''Selenetherium kolleensis'', known from an incomplete mandible. It was found in the early (

Zanclean The Zanclean is the lowest stage or earliest age on the geologic time scale of the Pliocene. It spans the time between 5.332 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago) and 3.6 ± 0.005 Ma. It is preceded by the Messinian Age of the Miocene Epoch, and f ...

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Pliocene The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch (geology), epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.33 to 2.58Chad Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North Africa, North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to Chad–Libya border, the north, Sudan to Chad–Sudan border, the east, the Central Afric ...

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Prehistoric elephants Prehistoric placental genera Pliocene mammals of Africa Fossil taxa described in 2005 Pliocene proboscideans {{paleo-proboscidean-stub