Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Parent taxon: Elephantidae according to E. I. Rogaev et al. 2006
See also Maglio 1970, Maglio 1973, McKenna and Bell 1997, Osborn 1921, Sanders 2007, Shoshani and Tassy 1996 and Shoshani and Tassy 2005
Sister taxa: Emmenodon, Palaeoloxodon, Selenetherium, Stegodibelodon, Stegodon, Stegodontinae, Stegotetrabelodon, Stegotetrabelodontinae, Suina
Subtaxa: Elephantini Loxodontini Primelephas
Type: Elephas
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (2 collections), Azerbaijan (1), Belgium (1), Cameroon (1), Canada (30: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon), China (10), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Croatia (1), Czechia (3), Djibouti (1), Egypt (1), El Salvador (2), Ethiopia (6), France (14), Georgia (2), Germany (26), Greece (26), Guatemala (4), Honduras (1), Hungary (2), India (11), Indonesia (4), Israel (4), Italy (26), Japan (3), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (18), Kyrgyzstan (1), Laos (1), Libya (1), Malaysia (1), Mali (1), Malta (1), Mexico (43), Mongolia (1), Morocco (5), the Netherlands (6), Nicaragua (2), North Atlantic (1), the Philippines (1), Romania (16), the Russian Federation (17), Rwanda (1), Slovakia (1), Somalia (1), South Africa (18), Spain (13), Sri Lanka (1), Sudan (5), Syria (1), Taiwan (2), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (7), Thailand (2), Turkmenistan (3), Türkiye (2), the United Kingdom (15), United States (325: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming), Zambia (1), Zimbabwe (1)
• Villafranchian of Greece (1), Hungary (4), Italy (1), Romania (1)
• MN 16 of Italy (2)
• Blancan of El Salvador (1), Mexico (1), United States (4: California, Florida, Idaho, New Mexico)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (2), France (2), Greece (3), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (4), Kenya (2), Malawi (3), Myanmar (2), Nepal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Uganda (1)
• Pliocene of Azerbaijan (1), Chad (8), China (1), Ethiopia (22), Georgia (1), Greece (2), India (5), Indonesia (10), Italy (8), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (18), Malawi (3), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Pakistan (1), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (6), South Africa (3), Spain (1), Tajikistan (2), Tanzania (25), Uganda (2), Ukraine (2), Uzbekistan (1)
• Baodean of China (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (4), Kenya (4), South Africa (4), Tanzania (4), Uganda (11)
• Miocene of Chad (4), Italy (1), Kenya (4), South Africa (1), Thailand (1)
• Neogene of Myanmar (1), Taiwan (4), United States (1: West Virginia)
Total: 920 collections including 994 occurrences