Elephantoidea is a taxonomic group that contains the elephants as well as their closest extinct relatives, including stegodontids and "tetralophodont gomphotheres", the latter of which are otherwise placed in Gomphotheriidae. An autapomorphic feature of the group is the presence of a checkerboard pattern formed by dentinal tubules.[1]
^Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Jean-Loup Welcomme, Laurent Marivaux, Ibrahim Baloch, Mouloud Benammi, Pascal Tassy (2003). "First record of Paleogene Elephantoidea (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the Bugti Hills of Pakistan". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23 (4): 977–980. doi:10.1671/2453-25. ISSN 0272-4634. Archived from the original on 2023-02-13.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Elephantoidea is a taxonomic group that contains the elephants as well as their closest extinct relatives, including stegodontids and "tetralophodont...
assigned to Mammutoidea by Carroll (1988); to Elephantoidea by Lambert and Shoshani (1998); and to Elephantoidea by Shoshani et al. (2006). While Stegodon...
genus of "tetralophodont gomphothere" belonging to the superfamily Elephantoidea, known from the Miocene of Afro-Eurasia. The genus Tetralophodon (meaning...
gomphotheres" from Gomphotheriidae, and instead assign them to the group Elephantoidea. "Tetralophodont gomphotheres" are thought to have evolved from "trilophodont...
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...
‡Mammutoidea Family †Mammutidae: mastodons and relatives Superfamily Elephantoidea Family †Gomphotheriidae: gomphotheres Family Elephantidae: modern elephants...
gomphotheres from Gomphotheriidae, and regarded them as members of Elephantoidea instead. Two largely complete individuals of Anancus arvernensis reached...
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