Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Synonyms: Archidiskodon Pohling 1888, Mammuthus (Archidiskodon) Pohling 1888, Mammuthus (Parelephas) Osborn 1924, Parelephas Osborn 1924
Parent taxon: Elephantini according to N. Rohland et al. 2010
See also Alroy 2002, Barriel et al. 1999, Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi 1995, Carroll 1988, Christiansen 2007, Haury et al. 1953, Hibbard 1955, Jin 1983, Kalb and Frohelich 1995, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Lambert and Shoshani 1998, Lister 1993, McKenna and Bell 1997, Miller 1976, Osborn 1918, Osborn 1924, Puckette and Scholtz 1974, Rogaev et al. 2006, Sanders 2007, Shoshani and Tassy 1996, Shoshani and Tassy 2005, Webb and Dudley 1995 and Wilson 1967
Sister taxa: Elephantina, Elephas, Loxodontina
Subtaxa: Archidiskodon celebensis Archidiskodon haroldcooki Archidiskodon weifangensis Mammuthus chosaricus Mammuthus columbi Mammuthus creticus Mammuthus exilis Mammuthus hayi Mammuthus lamarmorae Mammuthus meridionalis Mammuthus primigenius Mammuthus trogontherii
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Azerbaijan (1 collection), Belgium (1), Canada (30: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon), China (5), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (3), El Salvador (2), France (14), Georgia (2), Germany (26), Greece (26), Guatemala (4), Honduras (1), Hungary (2), Israel (2), Italy (21), Japan (3), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mexico (42), Mongolia (1), the Netherlands (6), Nicaragua (2), North Atlantic (1), Romania (16), the Russian Federation (16), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (11), Syria (1), Taiwan (2), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (2), Turkmenistan (3), the United Kingdom (15), United States (310: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
• Blancan of El Salvador (1), Mexico (1), United States (4: California, Florida, Idaho, New Mexico)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (2), Greece (4), Indonesia (1), Italy (4), Malawi (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Uganda (1)
• Pliocene of Azerbaijan (1), Ethiopia (7), Georgia (1), Greece (2), Hungary (4), India (1), Indonesia (10), Italy (10), Kazakhstan (1), Malawi (2), Mexico (1), Romania (6), the Russian Federation (5), South Africa (3), Spain (1), Tajikistan (2), Ukraine (2), Uzbekistan (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (3), South Africa (3), Uganda (1)
• Miocene of Italy (1)
• Neogene of United States (1: West Virginia)
Total: 670 collections including 689 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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