Definition of Elephantoid. Meaning of Elephantoid. Synonyms of Elephantoid

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Definition of Elephantoid

Elephantoid
Elephantoid El"e*phan*toid` (?; 277), Elephantoidal El`e*phan*toid"al, a. [Elephant + -oid.] (Zo["o]l.) Resembling an elephant in form or appearance.

Meaning of Elephantoid from wikipedia

- Elephantoidea is a taxonomic group that contains the elephants as well as their closest extinct relatives, including stegodontids and "tetralophodont gomphotheres"...
- Species of fossil elephantoid...
- descendant groups in the cladistic sense) in relation to the derived elephantoid families Stegodontidae and Elephantidae (elephants, mammoths, and relatives)...
- Paleoreas, Tragoportax, Miotragocerus and Dorcatherium, the “gomphotherid” elephantoid Tetralophodon, the porcupine Hystrix, and the suid Microstonyx. Machairodus...
- no mammals on Java. As sea level lowered, species such as the dwarf elephantoid Sinomastodon bumiajuensis colonized Sundaland from mainland Asia. Later...
- E.; & Froehlich, D. J. (1995). "Interrelationships of Late Neogene Elephantoids: New evidence from the Middle Awash Valley, Afar, Ethiopia". Geobios...
- (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae) with a Discussion on Enamel Evolution in Elephantoids". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 15 (1): 37–58. doi:10.1007/s10914-007-9057-3...
- doi:10.24832/amt.v35i2.252. Bergh, G.D. van den, 1999. The Late Neogene elephantoid-bearing faunas of [Indonesia and their palaeozoogeographic implications;...
- the family of elephants". Kalb, Jon E.; ****efa Mebrate (1993). Fossil Elephantoids from the Hominid-Bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash Valley, Afar Depression...
- retrieved 2 December 2011. Jon E. Kalb, ****efa Mebrate (1993). Fossil elephantoids from the hominid-bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash Valley, Afar Depression...