Tribe Loxodontini Osborn 1918 (elephant)

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae

Parent taxon: Elephantinae according to N. Rohland et al. 2010

See also Shoshani and Tassy 2005

Sister taxa: Elephantini, Primelephas

Subtaxa: Loxodonta

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), Cameroon (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Djibouti (1), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (6), Kenya (11), Libya (1), Mali (1), Morocco (3), Rwanda (1), Somalia (1), South Africa (16), Sudan (5), Tanzania (7), Zambia (1), Zimbabwe (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2), Malawi (3)

• Pliocene of Chad (3), Ethiopia (15), Kenya (15), Malawi (2), South Africa (1), Tanzania (24), Uganda (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1), Uganda (9)

• Miocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (1)

Total: 142 collections including 149 occurrences

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