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 aurorae, Stegodon bombifrons, Stegodon elephantoides, Stegodon florensis, Stegodon ganesa, Stegodon hypsilophus, Stegodon insignis, Stegodon kaisensis, Stegodon luzonensis, Stegodon mediterraneus, Stegodon miensis, Stegodon mindanensis, Stegodon namadicus, Stegodon preorientalis, Stegodon rathiansis, Stegodon sompoensis, Stegodon sumbaensis, Stegodon syrticus, Stegodon trigonocephalus, Stegodon yuanmouensis, Stegodon zdanskyi, Stegodon zhaotongensis
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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