Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Alternative spelling: Dinotheriidae
Parent taxon: Proboscidia according to R. Lydekker 1880
See also Abel 1919, Aiglstorfer et al. 2014, Alba et al. 2020, Bonaparte 1850, Carroll 1988, Christiansen 2007, Cope 1889, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Geraads et al. 2005, Huttunen and Göhlich 2002, Koufos et al. 2003, Mahboubi et al. 1984, McKenna and Bell 1997, Pickford 2003, Sach and Heizmann 2001, Sanders et al. 2010, Shoshani and Tassy 1996, Shoshani and Tassy 2005 and Stefani 1916
Sister taxa: Arcanotherium, Barytherioidea, Caenobasileus, Caenobasileus tremontigerus, Choerolophodontidae, Cryptomastodon, Deinotherioidea, Dinotherioidea, Elephantiformes, Eritherium, Euelephantoidea, Gomphotheriidae, Hemimastodontidae, Mastodontidae, Mastodontoidea, Moeritherioidea, Neodesmostylus, Phiomia, Plesielephantiformes, Saloumia
Subtaxa: Chilgatheriinae Deinotheriinae Dinotheriina Dinotherium Prodeinotherium
Type: Deinotheriinae
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (5 collections), Kenya (27), Tanzania (5)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (3), Kenya (1), Malawi (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (12), Kenya (15), the Russian Federation (1), Senegal (1), Tanzania (6), Uganda (2), Ukraine (7)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (4), Pakistan (1)
• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Austria (8), Bulgaria (6), France (14), Georgia (3), Germany (8), Greece (14), Hungary (1), India (7), Iraq (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (19), Lebanon (1), Moldova (4), Namibia (4), Nepal (4), Pakistan (24), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Slovakia (2), South Africa (1), Spain (5), Switzerland (1), Thailand (2), Turkey (4), Uganda (3), Ukraine (8)
• Oligocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1)
Total: 244 collections including 250 occurrences