| Protanancus | |
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| The mandible and lower jaw of Protanancus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Gomphotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Protanancus Arambourg, 1945 |
| Type species | |
| †Protanancus macinnesi Arambourg, 1945 | |
| Other species | |
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Protanancus macinnesi is an extinct genus of proboscidean which lived during the Miocene epoch in Africa, Asia and Europe. It was a gomphothere.
This animal was around the size of an modern Asian elephant and similar to its close relative Gomphotherium. However, Protanancus jaw was long and narrow and had two tusks with flattened terminals.