Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Synonym: Brevirostrinae Osborn 1923
Parent taxon: Gomphotheriidae according to L. Hautier et al. 2009
See also Cabrera 1929, Cregut-Bonnoure and Tsoukala 2017, Sanders 2007 and Zurita et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Amahuacatherium, Amebelodontinae, Blancotherium, Cuvieroniinae, Cuvieronius, Eubelodon, Eurybelodon, Gnathabelodon, Gomphotheriinae, Gomphotherium, Konobelodon, Masthodon, Mastodon shepardii, Mastotherium, Megabelodon, Morrillia, Pediolophodon, Pentalophodon, Rhynchotheriinae, Rhynchotherium, Rhynchotherium rectidens, Selenolophodon, Serbelodon, Sinomastodon, Stegomastodon, Synconolophus, Tetralophodon, Torynobelodon
Subtaxa: Anancus
Type: Anancus
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), France (7), Greece (3), Italy (2), the Netherlands (2), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Texas)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Greece (4), Italy (1), Kenya (1), Malawi (1)
• Pliocene of Afghanistan (1), Bulgaria (2), Ethiopia (6), France (2), Georgia (2), Greece (10), Hungary (4), India (1), Italy (16), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (8), Malawi (2), Moldova (6), Morocco (1), Romania (11), the Russian Federation (3), Slovakia (3), Slovenia (1), South Africa (2), Spain (5), Tanzania (4), Ukraine (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (7), Kenya (3), South Africa (4), Tanzania (3), Uganda (2)
• Miocene of Bulgaria (4), Chad (1), Greece (1), India (1), Italy (1), Kenya (5), South Africa (1), Spain (1)
Total: 156 collections including 160 occurrences