Mammalia - Proboscidea

Full reference: J. P. Khomenko. 1928. Bemekungen zu E. Pfizenmayer, Ein Desmostyliden Zahn der Neusibirischen Insel Kotelnyi. Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, abt. B 519-520

Parent taxon: Proboscidea according to D. P. Domning 1996

See also Khomenko 1928, Kretzoi 1941, Mitchell and Repenning 1963 and Shikama 1966

Sister taxa: Amebelodontidae, Arcanotherium, Barytherioidea, Caenobasileus, Caenobasileus tremontigerus, Cryptomastodon, Deinotherioidea, Elephantiformes, Elephantoidea, Eritherium, Euelephantoidea, Hemimastodontidae, Mastodontidae, Moeritherioidea, Plesielephantiformes

Subtaxa: Neodesmostylus primigenius

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Type: Neodesmostylus primigenius

Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution: found only at Balyktach River (Quaternary of Russian Federation)

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