Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Deinotherium gigantium, Dinotherium giganteum
Synonyms: Deinotherium gigantissimum Stef?nescu 1892, Deinotherium laevius Jourdan 1868, Deinotherium levius Jourdan 1868, Deinotherium thraciensis Nikolov 1966, Dinotherium gigantissimum Stef?nescu 1892, Dinotherium levius Jourdan 1868, Dinotherium thraciense Nikolov 1966, Dinotherium thraciensis Nikolov 1966
Full reference: J. Kaup. 1829. Deinotherium giganteum. Eine Gattung der Vorwelt aus der Ordnung der Pachydermen, aufgestellt und beschrieben. Isis von Oken 22(4):401-404
Belongs to Deinotherium according to N. Poulakakis et al. 2005
See also Aiglstorfer et al. 2014, Athanassiou 2004, Belyaeva 1948, Bergounioux and Crouzel 1961, Cope 1889, Geraads et al. 2005, Ginsburg et al. 1979, Kaup 1832, Kovachev and Nikolov 2006, Markov 2008, Scott 1873, Shoshani and Tassy 1996, Shoshani and Tassy 2005 and Tsoukala and Melentis 1994
Sister taxa: Deinotherium bozasi, Deinotherium hobleyi, Deinotherium indicum, Deinotherium proavum, Deinotherium sindiense, Dinotherium indicum, Dinotherium konigii, Dinotherium pentapotamiae
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Ukraine (6 collections)
• Turolian of Bulgaria (3), Greece (1)
• Miocene of Austria (7), Bulgaria (3), France (3), Georgia (3), Germany (1), Greece (3), Hungary (1), Kazakhstan (1), Moldova (3), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (3), Türkiye (3), Ukraine (5)
Total: 48 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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