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Deinotherioidea
Taxonomy
Deinotherioidea was named by Osborn (1936). Its type is Deinotheriidae.
It was reranked as the suborder Deinotherioidea by Simpson (1945); it was corrected as Deinotherioidea by McKenna (1975), Carroll (1988), Koufos et al. (2003), Sanders et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Proboscidea by Carroll (1988); and to Proboscidea by Osborn (1936), Simpson (1945), McKenna (1975), Koufos et al. (2003), Sanders et al. (2010), Alba et al. (2020).
It was reranked as the suborder Deinotherioidea by Simpson (1945); it was corrected as Deinotherioidea by McKenna (1975), Carroll (1988), Koufos et al. (2003), Sanders et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Proboscidea by Carroll (1988); and to Proboscidea by Osborn (1936), Simpson (1945), McKenna (1975), Koufos et al. (2003), Sanders et al. (2010), Alba et al. (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1936 | Deinotherioidea Osborn p. 24 |
| 1945 | Deinotherioidea Simpson |
| 1975 | Deinotherioidea McKenna p. 43 |
| 1988 | Deinotherioidea Carroll |
| 2003 | Deinotherioidea Koufos et al. |
| 2010 | Deinotherioidea Sanders et al. p. 174 |
| 2020 | Deinotherioidea Alba et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Superfm. †Deinotherioidea Osborn 1936
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Fm. †Deinotheriidae Bonaparte 1845 [deinothere]
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Subfm. †Chilgatheriinae Sanders et al. 2004
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Subfm. †Deinotheriinae Bonaparte 1845
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G. †Deinotherium Kaup 1829
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†Deinotherium bozasi Arambourg 1934
†Deinotherium giganteum Kaup 1829
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Invalid names: Deinotherium gigantissimum Stef?nescu 1892 [synonym], Deinotherium levius Jourdan 1868 [synonym]
†Deinotherium hobleyi Andrews 1911
†Deinotherium indicum Falconer 1845
†Deinotherium proavum Eichwald 1835
†Deinotherium sindiense Lydekker 1880
†Dinotherium indicum Falconer 1845
†Dinotherium konigii Kaup 1825
†Dinotherium pentapotamiae Falconer and Lydekker 1876
Invalid names: Antoletherium Falconer [synonym]
G. †Prodeinotherium Ehik 1930
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†Prodeinotherium bavaricum von Meyer 1831
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Invalid names: Dinotherium secundarium Lartet 1836 [synonym], Prodeinotherium cuvieri Kaup 1832 [synonym], Prodeinotherium hungaricum Ehik 1930 [synonym]
†Prodeinotherium hobleyi Andrews 1911
†Prodeinotherium orlovii Sahni and Tripathi 1957
†Prodeinotherium pentapotamiae Falconer and Lydekker 1876
Invalid names: Dinotheriina Bonaparte 1850 [invalid subgroup]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oligocene to the top of the Calabrian or 27.30000 to 0.77400 Ma
Collections (249 total)
Oldest occurrences | |||
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Chattian | Ethiopia | Deinotheriidae indet. (71941) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Kenya (Turkana) | Prodeinotherium sp. (174662) | |
| Aquitanian | Kenya (Rift Valley) | Prodeinotherium sp. (174664) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | India (Himachal Pradesh) | Prodeinotherium orlovii (214538) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Greece (North Aegean) | Prodeinotherium bavaricum (195540) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Kenya | Dinotherium hobleyi (146600) Prodeinotherium hobleyi (70808) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Pakistan (Baluchistan) | Deinotherium sp. (180599 180609) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Germany | Deinotherium bavaricum (70362) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene | Uganda | Prodeinotherium indet. (28293) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene | Namibia | Deinotherium hobleyi (195404) Prodeinotherium hobleyi (70421) Prodeinotherium hobleyi, Deinotherium hobleyi (70420) | |
Youngest occurrences |
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | PBDB collection number |
| Gelasian | Ethiopia (Afar) | Deinotherium bozasi (224655) | |
| Gelasian | Kenya | Deinotherium bozasi (21376 21398 21410 21420 21460 21461 21478 21488 21503 21539) | |
| Gelasian | Tanzania | Deinotherium bozasi (21804 22594 22595) | |
| Gelasian | Kenya (Rift Valley) | Deinotherium bozasi (21280 21282 21301 21345 21353 21356) | |
| Gelasian | Ethiopia | Deinotheriidae indet. (21626 21627 21654) | |
| Gelasian - Calabrian | Kenya | Deinotherium bozasi (21367 21370 21458 21462 21464 21498) | |
| Gelasian - Calabrian | Ethiopia (Ethiopian Rift) | Deinotherium bozasi (22492) | |
| Gelasian - Calabrian | Tanzania | Deinotheriidae indet. (21973 22624) | |
| Pleistocene | Kenya | Deinotherium bozasi (22268 22269 22270) | |
| Calabrian | Kenya (Rift Valley) | Deinotherium bozasi (21294 21306) | |