Plesielephantiformes

Plesielephantiformes; Temporal range: 56–2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Eocene to Early Pleistocene
	Partial skeleton of a Deinotherium gigantissimum in the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History in Chisinau.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Suborder:	†Plesielephantiformes; Shoshani et al., 2001
Families
	†Numidotheriidae; †Barytheriidae; †Deinotheriidae;

Plesielephantiformes is an extinct clade of large herbivorous mammals and one of two suborders of the Proboscidea, a group containing elephants and their close relatives.^[1]

References[]

^ J. Shoshani; W. J. Sanders; P. Tassy (2001). "Elephants and other Proboscideans: a summary of recent findings and new taxonomic suggestions". The World of Elephants - International Congress, Rome 2001: 676–679.

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[Shoshani_et_al_2001-1] J. Shoshani; W. J. Sanders; P. Tassy (2001). "Elephants and other Proboscideans: a summary of recent findings and new taxonomic suggestions". The World of Elephants - International Congress, Rome 2001: 676–679.

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Plesielephantiformes Temporal range: 56–2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Eocene to Early Pleistocene

Partial skeleton of a Deinotherium gigantissimum in the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History in Chisinau.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Suborder:	†Plesielephantiformes Shoshani et al., 2001
Families
†Numidotheriidae †Barytheriidae †Deinotheriidae