Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Parent taxon: Loxodontini according to N. Rohland et al. 2010
See also Barriel et al. 1999, Carroll 1988, Christiansen 2007, Kalb and Frohelich 1995, Maglio 1970, Maglio 1973, McKenna and Bell 1997, Rogaev et al. 2006, Sanders 2007, Shoshani and Tassy 1996, Shoshani and Tassy 2005 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Loxodonta adaurora Loxodonta africana Loxodonta atlantica Loxodonta cookei Loxodonta cyclotis Loxodonta exoptata
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Djibouti (1), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (6), Kenya (9), Libya (1), Morocco (4), Rwanda (1), South Africa (15), Sudan (4), Tanzania (6), Zambia (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2), Malawi (3)
• Pliocene of Chad (3), Ethiopia (15), Kenya (15), Malawi (2), South Africa (1), Tanzania (24), Uganda (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1), Uganda (9)
• Miocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (1)
Total: 134 collections including 141 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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