Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Mastodon arvenensis, Mastodon arvernensis
Belongs to Anancus according to A. Athanassiou 2016
See also Belyaeva 1948, Cope 1889, Hautier et al. 2009, Osborn 1922 and Stefani 1916
Sister taxa: Anancus alexeevae, Anancus bensonensis, Anancus brazosius, Anancus capensis, Anancus defloccatus, Anancus kazachstanensis, Anancus kazachstanicus, Anancus kenyensis, Anancus lehmanni, Anancus orarius, Anancus perimensis, Anancus petrocchii, Anancus sinensis, Anancus sivalensis, Anancus ultimus
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (7 collections), Greece (3), Italy (2), the Netherlands (2), Spain (1), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• MN 16 of France (2), Greece (1), Italy (4)
• Villafranchian of Greece (1), Hungary (3), Romania (1), Slovakia (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Greece (3), Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Bulgaria (2), Georgia (2), Greece (8), Hungary (1), Italy (11), Kazakhstan (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Moldova (7), Romania (10), the Russian Federation (5), Slovenia (1), Spain (5), Ukraine (6)
• Turolian of Spain (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene of Bulgaria (1), Italy (1)
Total: 102 collections including 103 occurrences
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