Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Alternative spelling: Prodinotherium
Parent taxon: Deinotheriidae according to K. Huttunen and U. B. Göhlich 2002
See also Aiglstorfer et al. 2014, Bergounioux and Crouzel 1961, Carroll 1988, Christiansen 2007, Koufos et al. 2003, McKenna and Bell 1997, Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009, Sanders et al. 2010, Shoshani and Tassy 1996 and Shoshani and Tassy 2005
Sister taxa: Chilgatheriinae, Deinotheriinae, Dinotheriina, Dinotherium
Subtaxa: Prodeinotherium bavaricum Prodeinotherium hobleyi Prodeinotherium orlovii Prodeinotherium pentapotamiae
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (1 collection), France (10), Germany (7), Greece (2), India (3), Kenya (13), Namibia (3), Nepal (3), Pakistan (12), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), Thailand (1), Uganda (1)
• Oligocene of Kenya (1)
Total: 62 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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