†Primelephas Maglio 1970 (elephant)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Full reference: V. J. Maglio. 1970. Four new species of Elephantidae from the Plio-Pleistocene of northwestern Kenya. Breviora 341:1-341
Parent taxon: Elephantinae according to H. T. Mackaye et al. 2008
See also Carroll 1988, Maglio 1970, Maglio 1973, McKenna and Bell 1997, Shoshani and Tassy 1996 and Shoshani and Tassy 2005
Sister taxa: Elephantini, Loxodontini
Subtaxa: Primelephas korotorensis
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Chad (5 collections), Kenya (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (4), Kenya (3), Tanzania (4), Uganda (1)
• Miocene of Chad (3), Kenya (4)
Total: 28 collections including 29 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.