Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Alternative spelling: Deinotherium
Synonym: Antoletherium Falconer
Parent taxon: Dinotheriidae according to R. Lydekker 1880
See also Abel 1919, Aiglstorfer et al. 2014, Alba et al. 2020, Athanassiou 2004, Bergounioux and Crouzel 1961, Carroll 1988, Christiansen 2007, Codrea et al. 1991, Geraads et al. 2005, Konidaris and Tsoukala 2019, Lydekker 1876, McKenna and Bell 1997, Pickford 2003, Pictet 1853, Sach and Heizmann 2001, Sanders et al. 2010, Shoshani and Tassy 1996, Shoshani and Tassy 2005 and Tsoukala and Melentis 1994
Sister taxa: Chilgatheriinae, Deinotheriinae, Dinotheriina, Prodeinotherium
Subtaxa: Deinotherium bozasi Deinotherium giganteum Deinotherium hobleyi Deinotherium indicum Deinotherium proavum Dinotherium indicum Dinotherium konigii Dinotherium pentapotamiae Dinotherium sindiense
Type: Deinotherium giganteum
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (2 collections), Kenya (27), Tanzania (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (3), Kenya (1), Malawi (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (12), Kenya (15), the Russian Federation (1), Senegal (1), Tanzania (6), Uganda (2), Ukraine (7)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (4), Pakistan (1)
• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Austria (7), Bulgaria (6), France (4), Georgia (3), Germany (1), Greece (12), Hungary (1), India (5), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (5), Lebanon (1), Moldova (4), Namibia (2), Nepal (1), Pakistan (9), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Slovakia (1), Spain (3), Thailand (2), Turkey (4), Uganda (2), Ukraine (8)
Total: 173 collections including 177 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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