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
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