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
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