Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Alternative spellings: Elephas (Palaeoloxodon), Loxodonta (Palaeoloxodon)
Parent taxon: Elephantidae according to K. Takahashi 2023
See also Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi 1995, Christiansen 2007, Matsumoto 1929, Palombo 2001, Palombo 2005, Shoshani and Eisenberg 1982, Shoshani and Tassy 1996 and Shoshani and Tassy 2005
Sister taxa: Elephantinae, Emmenodon, Selenetherium, Stegodibelodon, Stegodon, Stegodontinae, Stegotetrabelodon, Stegotetrabelodontinae, Suina
Subtaxa: Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) cephallonicus Loxodonta (Palaeoloxodon) tokunagai Palaeoloxodon antiquus Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi Palaeoloxodon cypriotes Palaeoloxodon lomolinoi Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis Palaeoloxodon namadicus Palaeoloxodon naumanni Palaeoloxodon recki Palaeoloxodon tiliensis Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus Palaeoloxodon xylophagou
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (2 collections), Cyprus (2), Djibouti (5), Egypt (1), Eritrea (2), Ethiopia (118), France (3), Germany (8), Greece (43), India (8), Indonesia (1), Italy (12), Japan (6), Kenya (48), Malta (1), Namibia (1), Portugal (7), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (2), Spain (16), Sri Lanka (2), Taiwan (3), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (24), Turkmenistan (3), the United Kingdom (5)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Djibouti (1), Ethiopia (6), Kenya (2), Malawi (3), South Africa (1), Uganda (3)
• Pliocene to Holocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (22), Kenya (5), Malawi (1)
Total: 374 collections including 388 occurrences
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