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Stegotetrabelodon

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae

Taxonomy
Stegotetrabelodon was named by Petrocchi (1941). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Gomphotheriidae by Carroll (1988); to Elephantidae by Kalb and Frohelich (1995) and Shoshani and Tassy (1996); to Elephantinae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Stegotetrabelodontinae by Maglio (1970), Coppens (1972) and Shoshani and Tassy (2005).

Species
S. lybicus, S. orbus, S. syrticus
Species lacking formal opinion data
S. grandincisivum

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1941Stegotetrabelodon Petrocchi
1970Stegotetrabelodon Maglio p. 4
1972Stegotetrabelodon Coppens p. 2963
1988Stegotetrabelodon Carroll
1995Stegotetrabelodon Kalb and Frohelich p. 732 figs. Figure 2
1996Stegotetrabelodon Shoshani and Tassy p. 352
1997Stegotetrabelodon McKenna and Bell p. 503
2005Stegotetrabelodon Shoshani and Tassy p. 9 figs. Table 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
RankNameAuthor
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
—Tethytheria
orderProboscidea()
suborderElephantiformesTassy 1988
superfamilyElephantoidea
familyElephantidae
genusStegotetrabelodonPetrocchi 1941

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.

G. †Stegotetrabelodon Petrocchi 1941
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†Stegotetrabelodon lybicus Petrocchi 1943
†Stegotetrabelodon orbus Maglio 1970
†Stegotetrabelodon syrticus Petrocchi 1941
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: 2005-06-08 10:11:09
Modified: 2005-08-22 20:09:03
Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Serravallian to the top of the Zanclean or 13.82000 to 3.60000 Ma

Collections (25 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Miocene - Pliocene23.03 - 2.588Uganda S. sp. (22451 22453 22454)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.62Italy (Aulia) S. syrticus (215201)
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246Italy (Calabria) S. syrticus (215217)
Tortonian - Messinian11.62 - 5.333Kenya S. orbus (22241)
Tortonian - Zanclean11.62 - 3.6Ethiopia S. orbus (22158 22159 22161 22179)
Tortonian - Zanclean11.62 - 3.6Kenya S. orbus (22236)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Uganda S. sp. (22444 22445)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi) S. grandincisivum (28245)
MN 911.1 - 9.7Hungary (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén) S. gigantorostris (75481)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Libya S. syrticus (144638)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Kenya S. orbus (22274) S. sp. (22275 22307 22316)
Messinian - Zanclean7.246 - 3.6Kenya S. orbus (22242)
Messinian - Zanclean7.246 - 3.6Tanzania S. sp. (22056)
Messinian - Piacenzian7.246 - 2.588Kenya S. orbus (22237)
Messinian - Piacenzian7.246 - 2.588Kenya (Turkana District) S. orbus (21332)
Zanclean - Piacenzian5.333 - 2.588Kenya S. orbus (22235)