Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Alternative spelling: Mastodon (Zygolophodon)
Synonyms: Miomastodon Osborn 1922, Turicius Osborn 1926
Parent taxon: Mammutidae according to W. von Koenigswald et al. 2023
See also Carroll 1988, Lambert and Shoshani 1998, Madden 1980, Madden and Storer 1985, McKenna and Bell 1997, Morea 1981, Osborn 1922, Sanders et al. 2010, Sanders and Miller 2002, Shoshani and Tassy 1996, Shoshani and Tassy 2005 and Zhang et al. 2023
Sister taxa: Eozygodon, Eozygodontinae, Losodokodon, Mammut, Mammutinae, Sinomammut
Subtaxa: Turicius turicensis Zygolophodon (Turicius) Zygolophodon aegyptensis Zygolophodon atavus Zygolophodon chinjiensis Zygolophodon gobiensis Zygolophodon lufengensis Zygolophodon metachinjiensis Zygolophodon morotoensis Zygolophodon proavus Zygolophodon tapiroides Zygolophodon turicensis
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Pliocene of China (2 collections), Kazakhstan (1)
• Baodean of China (1)
• Neogene of Ukraine (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Canada (2: Saskatchewan), China (10), Egypt (1), France (9), Germany (1), Greece (1), India (2), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (1), Moldova (3), Namibia (2), North Macedonia (1), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (2), Serbia (2), Slovakia (4), Spain (2), Türkiye (1), Uganda (1), Ukraine (5), United States (17: California, Colorado, Florida, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, oregon)
• Oligocene of Kenya (1)
Total: 79 collections including 83 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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