''Losodokodon'' is an extinct genus of large herbivorous mammals belonging to the family

Mammutidae Mammutidae is an extinct family of proboscideans belonging to Elephantimorpha. It is best known for the mastodons (genus ''Mammut''), which inhabited North America from the Late Miocene (around 8 million years ago) until their extinction at the ...

. It was first described in 2009 by

David Tab Rasmussen David Tab Rasmussen (June 17, 1958 – August 7, 2014), also known as D. Tab Rasmussen, was an American biological anthropologist. Specializing in both paleontology and behavioral ecology with interests in Paleogene mammals, early primate evolu ...

and Mercedes Gutiérrez from fossils found in the Erageleit Formation of northwestern Kenya. ''Losodokodon'' lived during the

Late Oligocene The Chattian is, in the geologic timescale The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth. It is a system of chronological dating that uses chronostratigraphy (the pro ...

, between 27 and 24 million years ago. It is known from isolated molars and premolars. Dental mesowear suggests a

browsing Browsing is a kind of orienting strategy. It is supposed to identify something of relevance for the browsing organism. In context of humans, it is a metaphor taken from the animal kingdom. It is used, for example, about people browsing open sh ...

diet.

References

Mammutidae Prehistoric placental genera Oligocene mammals of Africa Fossils of Kenya Fossil taxa described in 2009 {{paleo-proboscidean-stub