Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Parent taxon: Elephantinae according to N. Rohland et al. 2010
See also McKenna and Bell 1997 and Shoshani and Tassy 2005
Sister taxa: Loxodontini, Primelephas
Subtaxa: Elephantina Elephas Loxodontina Mammuthus
Type: Elephas
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), Azerbaijan (1), Belgium (1), Canada (30: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon), China (10), Croatia (1), Czechia (3), El Salvador (2), France (15), 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 (7), Kyrgyzstan (1), Laos (1), Malaysia (1), Malta (1), Mexico (43), Mongolia (1), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (6), Nicaragua (2), North Atlantic (1), the Philippines (1), Romania (16), the Russian Federation (16), Slovakia (1), South Africa (3), Spain (13), Sri Lanka (1), Syria (1), Taiwan (2), Tajikistan (1), 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)
• MN 16 of Italy (2)
• Villafranchian of Greece (1), Hungary (4), Italy (1), Romania (1)
• Blancan of El Salvador (1), Mexico (1), United States (4: California, Florida, Idaho, New Mexico)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), France (2), Greece (3), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (4), Kenya (1), Malawi (1), Myanmar (2), Nepal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Uganda (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Azerbaijan (1), China (1), Ethiopia (12), Georgia (1), Greece (2), India (5), Indonesia (10), Italy (8), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (6), Malawi (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Pakistan (1), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (6), South Africa (3), Spain (1), Tajikistan (2), Tanzania (1), Ukraine (2), Uzbekistan (1)
• Baodean of China (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (3), Kenya (1), South Africa (3), Uganda (1)
• Neogene of Myanmar (1), Taiwan (4), United States (1: West Virginia)
• Miocene of Italy (1), Thailand (1)
Total: 772 collections including 815 occurrences