Deinotheres (Proboscidea, Deinotheriidae) are a clade of non-elephantiform proboscideans that originated in Africa and dispersed into Eurasia by the early Miocene. In Europe, deinotheres are first recorded in Greece during MN3, although they did not become a common faunal element throughout Europe until MN4. Early Miocene (MN3–MN4) deinothere remains from Europe are generally assigned to a different species (Prodeinotherium cuvieri) than those from the early middle Miocene (Prodeinotherium bavaricum; MN5–MN6). In the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula), Prodeinotherium remains are very scarce and largely remain unpublished. To clarify their taxonomic assignment, we describe the available material and compare it with that from elsewhere in Europe. Based on size and a few diagnostic occlusal details, we tentatively recognize both Prodeinotherium cf. P. cuvieri and Prodeinotherium cf. P. bavaricum in the basin. Although all the studied sites had previously been correlated to MN4, the recognition of P. cf. P. bavaricum at els Casots and les Escletxes is consistent with ongoing litho- and magnetostratigraphic studies suggesting a slightly younger age for these sites. The lack of Prodeinotherium remains in older (MN3) localities from the Vallès-Penedès Basin, where Gomphotherium is already recorded, further supports the view that deinotheres dispersed into Western Europe somewhat later than gomphotheres.

迪纳虫（Proinocidea，Deinotheriidae）是非象鼻形虫的进化枝，起源于非洲，并在中新世早期散布到欧亚大陆。在欧洲，第3 MN期间在希腊记录了迪纳in，尽管直到MN 4为止它们并没有在整个欧洲成为常见的动物区系。早中新世（MN3-MN4）deinothere遗体从欧洲通常分配给不同的物种（Prodeinotherium cuvieri）比那些从早期中中新世（Prodeinotherium bavaricum ; MN5-MN6）。在Vallès-Penedès盆地（伊比利亚东北半岛），前de热遗骸非常稀少，大部分尚未出版。为了弄清它们的分类分配，我们描述了可用的材料，并将其与欧洲其他地区的材料进行了比较。基于大小和一些诊断咬合的细节，我们姑且承认这两个Prodeinotherium比照 P. cuvieri和Prodeinotherium参见。盆地中的P. bavaricum。尽管所有研究的位点以前都与MN4相关，但对P. cf.的识别。els Casots和les Escletxes的P. bavaricum与正在进行的岩性地层学和磁地层学研究一致，表明这些位点的年龄稍小。缺乏前de仍然存在于瓦列斯-佩尼德斯盆地的较早（MN3）地区，那里已经记录了Gomphotherium，这进一步支持了Deinotherins扩散到西欧比Gomphothers迟一些的观点。