Parent taxon: Proboscidea according to S.-Q. Wang et al. 2017
See also Andrews 1906, Carroll 1988, McKenna and Bell 1997, Sanders et al. 2010, Shoshani and Tassy 1996 and Shoshani and Tassy 2005
Sister taxa: Arcanotherium, Barytherioidea, Caenobasileus, Caenobasileus tremontigerus, Choerolophodontidae, Cryptomastodon, Deinotheriidae, Deinotherioidea, Dinotherioidea, Elephantiformes, Eritherium, Euelephantoidea, Gomphotheriidae, Hemimastodontidae, Mastodontidae, Mastodontoidea, Moeritherioidea, Neodesmostylus, Plesielephantiformes, Saloumia
Subtaxa: Phiomia major Phiomia serridens
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Angola (1 collection), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2), Libya (1), Oman (1)
• Eocene of Libya (2)
Total: 10 collections including 11 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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