Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Full reference: G. D. van den Bergh. 1999. The Late Neogene elephantoid-bearing faunas of Indonesia and their palaeozoogeographic implications. A study of the terrestrial faunal succession of Sulawesi, Flores and Java, including evidence for early hominid dispersal east of Wallace's Line. Scripta Geologica 117:1-419
Belongs to Stegodon according to van den Bergh 1997
See also van den Bergh 1999
Sister taxa: Stegodon bombifrons, Stegodon florensis, Stegodon ganesa, Stegodon insignis, Stegodon kaisensis, Stegodon luzonensis, Stegodon mindanensis, Stegodon sompoensis, Stegodon sumbaensis, Stegodon syrticus, Stegodon trigonocephalus, Stegodon yuanmouensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Tangi Talo, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial tuff in the Olan Bula Formation of Indonesia
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution: found only at Tangi Talo
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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