Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Alternative spelling: Dinotherium
Synonym: Antoletherium Falconer
Parent taxon: Deinotheriinae according to D.M. Alba et al. 2020
See also Abel 1919, Aiglstorfer et al. 2014, Andrews 1911, Athanassiou 2004, Bergounioux and Crouzel 1961, Carroll 1988, Christiansen 2007, Codrea et al. 1991, Cope 1889, Geraads et al. 2005, Konidaris and Tsoukala 2019, Lydekker 1876, Lydekker 1880, McKenna and Bell 1997, Pickford 2003, Pictet 1853, Sach and Heizmann 2001, Sanders et al. 2010, Scott 1873, Shoshani and Tassy 1996, Shoshani and Tassy 2005, Simpson 1945 and Tsoukala and Melentis 1994
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Deinotherium bozasi Deinotherium giganteum Deinotherium hobleyi Deinotherium indicum Deinotherium proavum Deinotherium sindiense Dinotherium indicum Dinotherium konigii Dinotherium pentapotamiae
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (2 collections), Kenya (27), Tanzania (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (4), Kenya (1), Malawi (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (12), Kenya (15), the Russian Federation (1), Senegal (1), Tanzania (6), Uganda (2), Ukraine (7)
• Turolian of Afghanistan (1), Bulgaria (3), Greece (4), Türkiye (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (4), Pakistan (1), Romania (1)
• Miocene of Austria (7), Bulgaria (3), France (4), Georgia (3), Germany (1), Greece (8), Hungary (1), India (5), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (5), Lebanon (1), Moldova (4), Namibia (2), Nepal (1), Pakistan (9), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Slovakia (1), Spain (3), Thailand (2), Türkiye (3), Uganda (2), Ukraine (8)
Total: 176 collections including 181 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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