†family Palaeomastodontidae Andrews 1906 (proboscidean)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Palaeomastodontidae
Full reference: C. W. Andrews. 1906. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt. 1-324
Parent taxon: Elephantiformes according to J. Shoshani et al. 2006
See also Abel 1919, Andrews 1906, McKenna and Bell 1997, Sanders et al. 2010 and Shoshani and Tassy 2005
Sister taxa: Dagbatitherium, Elephantoidea, Hemimastodon, Phiomiidae
Subtaxa: Palaeomastodon
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Ethiopia (1 collection), Kenya (1), Libya (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Egypt (1)
Total: 5 collections including 7 occurrences