Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Alternative spelling: Elephas (Stegodon)
Parent taxon: Elephantidae according to J. E. Kalb and D. J. Frohelich 1995
See also Abel 1919, Carroll 1988, Lydekker 1880, McKenna and Bell 1997, Sanders 1999, Shoshani and Tassy 1996 and Shoshani and Tassy 2005
Sister taxa: Elephantinae, Selenetherium, Stegodibelodon, Stegodontinae, Stegotetrabelodon, Stegotetrabelodontinae, Suina
Subtaxa: Stegodon bombifrons Stegodon florensis Stegodon ganesa Stegodon insignis Stegodon kaisensis Stegodon luzonensis Stegodon mindanensis Stegodon sompoensis Stegodon sondaari Stegodon sumbaensis Stegodon syrticus Stegodon trigonocephalus Stegodon yuanmouensis
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (17 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), India (1), Indonesia (15), Israel (2), Japan (2), the Philippines (2), Syria (1), Taiwan (1), Thailand (1), Vietnam (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (2), India (2), Indonesia (2), Myanmar (3), Nepal (1)
• Pliocene of Chad (1), China (2), India (4), Indonesia (11), Japan (3), Pakistan (1), Uganda (4)
• Baodean of China (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (2), South Africa (1), Uganda (5)
• Neogene of Greece (1), Myanmar (1), Taiwan (3)
• Miocene of China (2), India (1), Kenya (1), Thailand (2)
Total: 102 collections including 114 occurrences
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