Tribe Loxodontini Osborn 1918 (elephant)

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae

Parent taxon: Elephantinae according to N. Rohland et al. 2010

See also Shoshani and Tassy 2005

Sister taxa: Elephantini, Primelephas

Subtaxa: Loxodonta

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Djibouti (1), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (6), Kenya (9), Libya (1), Morocco (4), Rwanda (1), South Africa (15), Sudan (4), Tanzania (6), Zambia (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2), Malawi (3)

• Pliocene of Chad (3), Ethiopia (15), Kenya (15), Malawi (2), South Africa (1), Tanzania (24), Uganda (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1), Uganda (9)

• Miocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (1)

Total: 134 collections including 141 occurrences

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