†family Stegodontidae Osborn 1918 (proboscidean)

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Stegodontidae

Parent taxon: Elephantoidea according to J. Shoshani et al. 2006

See also Carroll 1988, Lambert and Shoshani 1998, Maglio 1973, Sanders 1999, Shoshani and Tassy 1996 and Shoshani and Tassy 2005

Sister taxa: Elephantidae, Loxodontinae, Mammontinae, Mammutoidea, Paratetralophodon

Subtaxa: Stegolophodon

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Pliocene of China (1 collection), India (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (3)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of Myanmar (1)

• Miocene of India (1), Japan (17), Pakistan (2), Thailand (4)

Total: 30 collections including 31 occurrences

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