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Elephantoidea is a
taxonomic group that
contains the
elephants as well as
their closest extinct relatives,
including stegodontids and "tetralophodont...
- ****igned to
Mammutoidea by
Carroll (1988); to
Elephantoidea by
Lambert and
Shoshani (1998); and to
Elephantoidea by
Shoshani et al. (2006).
While Stegodon...
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Animalia Phylum:
Chordata class:
Mammalia Order:
Proboscidea Superfamily:
Elephantoidea Family:
Elephantidae Groups included Loxodonta Anonymous, 1827 Elephas...
- †Pediolophodon Lambert, 2007 †Tetralophodon Falconer, 1857
Superfamily Elephantoidea Gray, 1821 †Family
Stegodontidae Osborn, 1918 †Stegolophodon Schlesinger...
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elephant sizes, they were not as
common as the
contemporary (but smaller)
Elephantoidea.
Fossil remains of this age are
known from the France, Germany, Greece...
- gomphotheres" from Gomphotheriidae, and
instead ****ign them to the
group Elephantoidea. "Tetralophodont gomphotheres" are
thought to have
evolved from "trilophodont...
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Animalia Phylum:
Chordata class:
Mammalia Order:
Proboscidea Superfamily:
Elephantoidea Family:
Elephantidae Gray, 1821 Type
genus Elephas Linnaeus, 1758 Genera...
- †Gomphotheriidae (gomphotheres)
Elephantoidea...
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Chordata class:
Mammalia Superorder:
Afrotheria Clade:
Tethytheria See also:
Plesielephantiformes Numidotheriidae Elephantimorpha Elephantida Elephantoidea...
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Skeleton of the
mammoth Mammuthus meridionalis (
Elephantoidea, Elephantidae)
Skeleton of the "shovel tusker"
Platybelodon (Amebelodontidae)...
