Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Parent taxon: Anancinae according to L. Hautier et al. 2009
See also Carroll 1988, Cregut-Bonnoure and Tsoukala 2017, Kalb and Frohelich 1995, Lambert and Shoshani 1998, McKenna and Bell 1997, Sanders 2007, Shoshani and Tassy 1996 and Shoshani and Tassy 2005
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Anancus arvernensis Anancus bensonensis Anancus brazosius Anancus capensis Anancus defloccatus Anancus kazachstanensis Anancus kenyensis Anancus lehmanni Anancus orarius Anancus perimensis Anancus petrocchii Anancus sinensis Anancus sivalensis
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (7 collections), Greece (3), Italy (2), the Netherlands (2), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Texas)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Greece (4), Italy (1), Kenya (1), Malawi (1)
• Pliocene of Afghanistan (1), Bulgaria (2), Ethiopia (6), France (2), Georgia (2), Greece (10), Hungary (4), India (1), Italy (16), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (8), Malawi (2), Moldova (6), Morocco (1), Romania (11), the Russian Federation (3), Slovakia (3), Slovenia (1), South Africa (2), Spain (5), Tanzania (4), Ukraine (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (7), Kenya (2), South Africa (4), Tanzania (3), Uganda (2)
• Miocene of Bulgaria (4), Chad (1), Greece (1), India (1), Italy (1), Kenya (5), South Africa (1), Spain (1)
Total: 154 collections including 158 occurrences
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