Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Alternative combination: Elephas insignis
Synonym: Stegodon orientalis Owen 1870
Belongs to Stegodon according to M. Schlosser 1903
See also Cope 1889 and Lydekker 1880
Sister taxa: Stegodon aurorae, Stegodon bombifrons, Stegodon elephantoides, Stegodon florensis, Stegodon ganesa, Stegodon hypsilophus, Stegodon kaisensis, Stegodon luzonensis, Stegodon mediterraneus, Stegodon miensis, Stegodon mindanensis, Stegodon namadicus, Stegodon preorientalis, Stegodon rathiansis, Stegodon sompoensis, Stegodon sondaari, Stegodon sumbaensis, Stegodon syrticus, Stegodon trigonocephalus, Stegodon yuanmouensis, Stegodon zdanskyi, Stegodon zhaotongensis
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (10 collections), India (5), Laos (1), Thailand (1), Vietnam (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of India (1), Myanmar (2), Nepal (1)
• Pliocene of India (4)
• Neogene of Myanmar (1), Taiwan (3)
Total: 31 collections including 32 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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