Family Mastodontidae Gray 1821 (proboscidean)

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mastodontidae

Alternative spelling: Mastodonadae

Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310

Parent taxon: Proboscidea according to R. E. Eshelman et al. 2018

See also Bergounioux et al. 1953, Gray 1821, Osborn 1921 and Thurmond and Jones 1981

Sister taxa: Arcanotherium, Barytherioidea, Caenobasileus, Caenobasileus tremontigerus, Choerolophodontidae, Cryptomastodon, Deinotheriidae, Deinotherioidea, Dinotherioidea, Elephantiformes, Eritherium, Euelephantoidea, Gomphotheriidae, Hemimastodontidae, Mastodontoidea, Moeritherioidea, Neodesmostylus, Phiomia, Plesielephantiformes, Saloumia

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), United States (1: Texas)

• Blancan of United States (1: Texas)

• Pliocene of Slovakia (1), United States (1: Texas)

• Miocene of China (2), Kenya (1), Spain (2)

Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence

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