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- Stegodontidae is an extinct family of proboscideans from Africa and Asia (with a single occurrence in Europe) from the Early Miocene (at least 17.3 million...
- might be a genetic throwback to extinct species such as the mammoths and stegodonts. However, a DNA test later confirmed it was a "regular" Asian elephant...
- still extant, that coexisted with both Homo floresiensis and the dwarf stegodonts on Flores. The process of insular dwarfing can occur relatively rapidly...
- SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group (17): 41–44. Ben S. Roesch. "Living Stegodont or Genetic Freak?". Archived from the original on 8 November 2006. Retrieved...
- Flores, Sumba and Sulawesi, Timor was also once a habitat of extinct dwarf stegodonts, relatives of elephants. Fauna of today includes a number of endemic species...
- " borsoni but lower than those of elephantids (extant and extinct) and stegodonts. The type species is also known from endocasts of ear petrosals. According...
- members of Proboscidea include the deinotheres, mastodons, gomphotheres and stegodonts. The family Elephantidae also contains several extinct groups, including...
- an Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). Similar to modern-day elephants, stegodonts were likely good swimmers, allowing them to dis**** to remote islands...
- well, while primate distribution declined. Elephants, gomphotheres and stegodonts were successful in Asia (the largest land mammals of the Pliocene were...
- remains, which include brown deer, monitor lizards, freshwater turtles and stegodonts. While the earliest confirmed evidence of a hominin came from a 67,000-year-old...