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Deinotheriidae (deinothere)
Taxonomy
Deinotheriidae was named by Bonaparte (1845) [also said to be 1850]. It is not extant. Its type is Deinotheriinae. It is the type family of Deinotherioidea.
It was corrected as Dinotheriidae by Lydekker (1880), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Stefani (1916) and Abel (1919).
It was assigned to Sirenia by Bonaparte (1850); to Proboscidia by Lydekker (1880); to Proboscidea by Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Proboscidea by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Elephantiformes by Sach and Heizmann (2001); to Plesielephantiformes by Shoshani and Tassy (2005); to Proboscidea by Abel (1919), Huttunen and Göhlich (2002) and Geraads et al. (2005); to Deinotherioidea by Carroll (1988), Koufos et al. (2003) and Sanders et al. (2010); to Proboscidea by Cope (1889), Stefani (1916), Mahboubi et al. (1984), Shoshani and Tassy (1996), Pickford (2003), Christiansen (2007) and Aiglstorfer et al. (2014); and to Deinotherioidea by Alba et al. (2020).
It was corrected as Dinotheriidae by Lydekker (1880), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Stefani (1916) and Abel (1919).
It was assigned to Sirenia by Bonaparte (1850); to Proboscidia by Lydekker (1880); to Proboscidea by Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Proboscidea by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Elephantiformes by Sach and Heizmann (2001); to Plesielephantiformes by Shoshani and Tassy (2005); to Proboscidea by Abel (1919), Huttunen and Göhlich (2002) and Geraads et al. (2005); to Deinotherioidea by Carroll (1988), Koufos et al. (2003) and Sanders et al. (2010); to Proboscidea by Cope (1889), Stefani (1916), Mahboubi et al. (1984), Shoshani and Tassy (1996), Pickford (2003), Christiansen (2007) and Aiglstorfer et al. (2014); and to Deinotherioidea by Alba et al. (2020).
Subtaxa
Chilgatheriinae, Deinotheriinae (type subfamily), Dinotheriina, Dinotherium (syn. Antoletherium), Prodeinotherium
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1845 | Deinotheriidae Bonaparte |
1850 | Dinotheriidae Bonaparte p. 1 |
1850 | Dinotheriina Bonaparte p. 1 |
1880 | Dinotheriidae Lydekker |
1889 | Dinotheriidae Cope p. 876 |
1891 | Dinotheriidae Flower and Lydekker p. 90 |
1916 | Dinotheriidae Stefani p. 11 |
1919 | Dinotheriidae Abel p. 829 |
1984 | Deinotheriidae Mahboubi et al. p. 543 |
1988 | Deinotheriidae Carroll |
1996 | Deinotheriidae Shoshani and Tassy p. 352 |
1997 | Deinotheriidae McKenna and Bell p. 498 |
2001 | Deinotheriidae Sach and Heizmann p. 40 |
2002 | Deinotheriidae Huttunen and Göhlich p. 490 |
2003 | Deinotheriidae Koufos et al. |
2003 | Deinotheriidae Pickford p. 208 |
2005 | Deinotheriidae Geraads et al. p. 536 |
2005 | Deinotheriidae Shoshani and Tassy p. 9 figs. Table 2 |
2007 | Deinotheriidae Christiansen p. 428 |
2010 | Deinotheriidae Sanders et al. p. 174 |
2014 | Deinotheriidae Aiglstorfer et al. |
2020 | Deinotheriidae Alba et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. †Deinotheriidae Bonaparte 1845 [deinothere]
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Subfm. †Chilgatheriinae Sanders et al. 2004
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G. †Dinotherium Kaup 1825
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†Deinotherium bozasi Arambourg 1934
†Deinotherium giganteum Kaup 1829
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Invalid names: Deinotherium gigantissimum Stef?nescu 1892 [synonym], Deinotherium levius Jourdan 1868 [synonym]
†Deinotherium hobleyi Andrews 1911
†Deinotherium indicum Falconer 1845
†Deinotherium proavum Eichwald 1835
†Dinotherium indicum Falconer 1845
†Dinotherium konigii Kaup 1825
†Dinotherium pentapotamiae Falconer and Lydekker 1876
†Dinotherium sindiense Lydekker 1880
Invalid names: Antoletherium Falconer [synonym]
G. †Prodeinotherium Ehik 1930
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†Prodeinotherium bavaricum von Meyer 1831
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Invalid names: Dinotherium secundarium Lartet 1836 [synonym], Prodeinotherium cuvieri Kaup 1832 [synonym], Prodeinotherium hungaricum Ehik 1930 [synonym]
†Prodeinotherium hobleyi Andrews 1911
†Prodeinotherium orlovii Sahni and Tripathi 1957
†Prodeinotherium pentapotamiae Falconer and Lydekker 1876
Invalid names: Deinotheriinae Bonaparte 1845 [empty], Dinotheriina Bonaparte 1850 [invalid subgroup]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
References: Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002 |
Collections (244 total)
Oldest occurrences | |||
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Late/Upper Oligocene | Kenya (Turkana) | Prodeinotherium sp. (174662) | |
Chattian | Ethiopia | Deinotheriidae indet. (71941) | |
Aquitanian | Kenya (Rift Valley) | Prodeinotherium sp. (174664) | |
Early/Lower Miocene | Pakistan (Baluchistan) | Deinotherium sp. (180599 180609) | |
Early/Lower Miocene | Greece (North Aegean) | Prodeinotherium bavaricum (195540) | |
Early/Lower Miocene | Germany | Deinotherium bavaricum (70362) | |
Early/Lower Miocene | Kenya | Dinotherium hobleyi (146600) Prodeinotherium hobleyi (70808) | |
Early/Lower Miocene | India (Himachal Pradesh) | Prodeinotherium orlovii (214538) | |
Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene | Uganda | Prodeinotherium indet. (28293) | |
Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene | Namibia | Deinotherium hobleyi (195404) Prodeinotherium hobleyi (70421) Prodeinotherium hobleyi, Deinotherium hobleyi (70420) | |
Youngest occurrences |
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Time interval | Ma | Country or state | PBDB collection number |
Gelasian | Tanzania | Deinotherium bozasi (21804 22594 22595) | |
Gelasian | Kenya | Deinotherium bozasi (21376 21398 21410 21420 21460 21461 21478 21488 21503 21539) | |
Gelasian | Ethiopia (Afar) | Deinotherium bozasi (224655) | |
Gelasian | Ethiopia | Deinotheriidae indet. (21626 21627 21654) | |
Gelasian | Kenya (Rift Valley) | Deinotherium bozasi (21280 21282 21301 21345 21353 21356) | |
Gelasian - Calabrian | Ethiopia (Ethiopian Rift) | Deinotherium bozasi (22492) | |
Gelasian - Calabrian | Tanzania | Deinotheriidae indet. (21973 22624) | |
Gelasian - Calabrian | Kenya | Deinotherium bozasi (21367 21370 21458 21462 21464 21498) | |
Pleistocene | Kenya | Deinotherium bozasi (22268 22269 22270) | |
Calabrian | Kenya (Rift Valley) | Deinotherium bozasi (21294 21306) |