Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Alternative combinations: Emmenodon elephantoides, Mastodon elephantoides
Full reference: W. Clift. 1829. On the Fossil Remains of two New Species of Mastodon, and of other vertebrated Animals, found on the left Bank of the Irawadi. Transactions of the Geological Society of London S2(2):369-376
Belongs to Stegodon according to V. Zeitoun et al. 2015
See also Clift 1829, Cope 1889 and Lydekker 1880
Sister taxa: Stegodon aurorae, Stegodon bombifrons, Stegodon florensis, Stegodon ganesa, Stegodon hypsilophus, Stegodon insignis, 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
Type specimen: Its type locality is Left Bank of Irawadi River, which is in a Neogene terrestrial gravel/sandstone in Myanmar
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (2 collections)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Myanmar (1)
• Pliocene of Japan (1)
• Neogene of Myanmar (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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