Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
This is almost certainly NOT the original combination. However, almost nobody ever even cites the author (Hopwood 1935), and the original work is nowhere to be found on the Internet. Nobody seems to have done a synonymy list ever.
Belongs to Stegodon according to Hopwood 1935
Sister taxa: Stegodon aurorae, Stegodon bombifrons, Stegodon elephantoides, 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 zhaotongensis
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution: found only at Gaozhuang Fauna (Teilhard de Chardin's Zone II), Yushe County, Shanxi Province (Pliocene of China)
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