†family Palaeomastodontidae Andrews 1906 (proboscidean)

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Palaeomastodontidae

Full reference: C. W. Andrews. 1906. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt 1-324

Parent taxon: Elephantiformes according to J. Shoshani et al. 2006

See also Abel 1919, Andrews 1906, McKenna and Bell 1997, Sanders et al. 2010 and Shoshani and Tassy 2005

Sister taxa: Dagbatitherium, Elephantimorpha, Elephantoidea, Hemimastodon, Phiomiidae

Subtaxa: Palaeomastodon

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Egypt (1 collection), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), Libya (1), Saudi Arabia (1)

Total: 5 collections including 9 occurrences

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