Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Alternative spellings: Deinotherioidae, Dinotheriidae
Parent taxon: Deinotherioidea according to D.M. Alba et al. 2020
See also Abel 1919, Aiglstorfer et al. 2014, Bonaparte 1850, Carroll 1988, Christiansen 2007, Cope 1889, Cope 1889, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Geraads et al. 2005, Huttunen and Göhlich 2002, Koufos et al. 2003, Lydekker 1880, Mahboubi et al. 1984, McKenna and Bell 1997, Pickford 2003, Sach and Heizmann 2001, Sanders et al. 2010, Scott 1873, Shoshani and Tassy 1996, Shoshani and Tassy 2005, Simpson 1945 and Stefani 1916
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Chilgatheriinae Deinotheriinae Dinotheriina Prodeinotherium
Type: Deinotherium
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (5 collections), Kenya (27), Tanzania (5)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (4), Kenya (1), Malawi (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (12), Kenya (15), the Russian Federation (1), Senegal (1), Tanzania (6), Uganda (2), Ukraine (7)
• Turolian of Afghanistan (1), Bulgaria (3), Greece (4), Türkiye (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (4), Pakistan (1), Romania (1)
• Miocene of Austria (8), Bulgaria (3), France (14), Georgia (3), Germany (8), Greece (10), Hungary (1), India (8), Iraq (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (19), Lebanon (1), Moldova (4), Namibia (4), Nepal (4), Pakistan (24), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Slovakia (2), South Africa (1), Spain (5), Switzerland (1), Thailand (2), Türkiye (3), Uganda (3), Ukraine (8)
• Oligocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1)
Total: 247 collections including 254 occurrences