Stegolophodon
Stegolophodon | |
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Tooth of Stegolophodon latidens | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Family: | †Stegodontidae Schlesinger, 1917 |
Genus: | †Stegolophodon |
Type species | |
†Stegolophodon latidens (Clift, 1828)
(originally Mastodon latidens) | |
Species | |
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Stegolophodon is an extinct genus of stegodontid proboscideans, with two tusks and a trunk. It lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs,[1][2][3][4][5] and may have evolved into Stegodon. Fossils have been primarily found in Asia, but some have also been reported in Africa.[6]
References[]
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- ^ Maguire, Kaitlin (November 2010). "The Stegodontidae". University of California Museum of Paleontology.
Categories:
- Stegodontidae
- Miocene proboscideans
- Pliocene proboscideans
- Prehistoric placental genera
- Neogene mammals of Asia
- Fossil taxa described in 1917
- Prehistoric mammal stubs