-
modern elephants were
probably convergently evolved. Like elephantids,
stegodontids are
thought to have
evolved from
gomphothere ancestors. Stegodontidae...
- †Stegodontidae (
stegodontids) Elephantidae...
-
includes the "shovel tuskers" like Platybelodon), c****olophodontids and
stegodontids.
Around 10
million years ago, the
earliest members of the
family Elephantidae...
- the
elephants as well as
their closest extinct relatives,
including stegodontids and "tetralophodont gomphotheres", the
latter of
which are otherwise...
- as well as
Elephantida (amebelodonts, c****olophodonts, gomphotheres,
stegodontids and elephantids). All
members of this
group have the
horizontal tooth...
-
Middle Pleistocene animals such as the
panda Ailuropoda baconi and the
stegodontid proboscidean Stegodon.
Other classic animals typically include orangutans...
-
Stegolophodon is an
extinct genus of
stegodontid proboscideans. It
lived during the
Miocene epoch in Asia. The
earliest fossils are
known from the Early...
-
After Homo
floresiensis Stegodon florensis insularis,
extinct dwarfed stegodontid proboscidean Papagomys theodorverhoeveni,
extinct giant rat Papagomys...
-
estimated body m**** of
around 400
kilograms (880 lb). Some
species of the
stegodontid Stegolophodon from the
Middle Miocene of ****an
around 16
million years...
- jaw
movement is
thought to have
evolved independently in
elephants and
stegodontids.
Stegodon po****tions from the Late
Pliocene of the
India (including...
