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Deinotherium giganteum

Osteichthyes - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae

Taxonomy
Deinotherium giganteum was named by Kaup (1829). It is not extant. It is the type species of Deinotherium.

It was recombined as Dinotherium giganteum by Kaup (1832), Cope (1889).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
D. laevius

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1829Deinotherium giganteum Kaup
1832Dinotherium giganteum Kaup p. 2
1868Deinotherium levius Jourdan
1873Deinotherium giganteum Scott p. 46
1889Dinotherium giganteum Cope p. 193
1892Deinotherium gigantissimum Stef?nescu
1961Dinotherium giganteum Bergounioux and Crouzel p. 512
1994Deinotherium giganteum Tsoukala and Melentis
1996Deinotherium giganteum Shoshani and Tassy p. 355 figs. Appendix C.1
2004Deinotherium giganteum Athanassiou
2005Deinotherium giganteum Geraads et al. p. 526
2005Deinotherium giganteum Poulakakis et al.
2005Deinotherium gigantissimum Shoshani and Tassy p. 7
2014Deinotherium giganteum Aiglstorfer et al.
2014Deinotherium levius Aiglstorfer et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
superorderAfrotheria
—Paenungulatomorpha
superorderPaenungulata
—Tethytheria
orderProboscidea()
superfamilyDeinotherioidea
familyDeinotheriidae()
subfamilyDeinotheriinaeBonaparte 1845
genusDeinotheriumKaup 1829
speciesgiganteum

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.

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Invalid names: Deinotherium gigantissimum Stef?nescu 1892 [synonym], Deinotherium levius Jourdan 1868 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: grazerf
Diet 2: browserf
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-08-26 13:32:09
Modified: 2005-08-26 15:32:09
Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999

Age range: base of the MN 5 to the top of the Turolian or 15.98000 to 5.09000 Ma

Collections (45 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Miocene23.04 - 5.333France (Vaucluse) Dinotherium giganteum (201497)
MN 515.98 - 13.82Türkiye (Bursa) Deinotherium giganteum (68547)
Langhian - Serravallian15.98 - 11.63France (Midi-Pyrenees) Deinotherium levius (32191)
Middle Miocene15.98 - 11.63Austria (Carinthia) Deinotherium levius (34606)
Middle Miocene15.98 - 11.63Bulgaria Deinotherium giganteum (232481)
Middle Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene15.98 - 5.333Spain (Catalonia) Deinotherium giganteum (199537)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.63Ukraine (Dnipropetrovsk) Dinotherium gigantissimum (75787)
Sarmatian12.8 - 11.63Austria Deinotherium levius (175587) Dinotherium levius (73299)
Sarmatian12.8 - 11.63Türkiye Deinotherium giganteum (56563)
MN 7 + 812.75 - 11.1Spain (Cataluña) Deinotherium giganteum (92640)
Vallesian11.63 - 8.725Greece Deinotherium giganteum (191070)
Vallesian11.63 - 8.725Spain (Segovia) Deinotherium giganteum (40768)
Tortonian11.63 - 7.246Austria (Niederösterreich) Deinotherium giganteum (45042 45043 45044)
Tortonian11.63 - 7.246Moldova Dinotherium giganteum (75802) Dinotherium gigantissimum (75803)
Tortonian11.63 - 7.246Ukraine (Odessa) Dinotherium giganteum (75794)
Tortonian11.63 - 7.246Ukraine Dinotherium giganteum (75800 76299)
Tortonian11.63 - 7.246Kazakhstan Dinotherium giganteum (75807)
Tortonian11.63 - 7.246Georgia Dinotherium giganteum (73901)
Tortonian11.63 - 7.246Germany (Bavaria) Deinotherium levius (206345)
Late/Upper Miocene11.63 - 5.333Moldova (Tighina Departement) Dinotherium giganteum (36143)
Late/Upper Miocene11.63 - 5.333Greece (Kassandra) Deinotherium giganteum (202726)
Late/Upper Miocene11.63 - 5.333Bulgaria (Blagoevgrard) Deinotherium gigantissimum (197446)
MN 911.1 - 9.67Hungary (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén) Deinotherium giganteum (75481)
MN 109.67 - 8.725Türkiye (Thrace) Deinotherium giganteum (67661)
MN 118.725 - 7.9Austria (Burgenland) Deinotherium giganteum (37789)
MN 118.725 - 7.9Georgia Deinotherium giganteum (75169) Dinotherium sp. (75087)
Turolian8.725 - 5.09Bulgaria Deinotherium gigantissimum (208566 208567 208568)
Turolian8.725 - 5.09Greece (Crete Island) Deinotherium giganteum (202722)
MN 127.9 - 6.965Ukraine (Odessa) Deinotherium giganteum (167995)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Romania Deinotherium levius (35125)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Bulgaria Deinotherium giganteum (215636)
Early/Lower Pliocene5.333 - 3.6Ukraine Dinotherium giganteum (76295 76303 76308)
Early/Lower Pliocene5.333 - 3.6Ukraine (Odessa) Dinotherium giganteum (76298)
Early/Lower Pliocene5.333 - 3.6Ukraine (Ismail) Dinotherium giganteum (76314)
Early/Lower Pliocene5.333 - 3.6Ukraine (Izmail) Dinotherium giganteum (76312)