Tribe Elephantini Gray 1821 (elephant)

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae

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

See also McKenna and Bell 1997 and Shoshani and Tassy 2005

Sister taxa: Loxodontini, Primelephas

Subtaxa: Elephantina Elephas Loxodontina Mammuthus

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Type: Elephas

Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), Azerbaijan (1), Belgium (1), Canada (30: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon), China (11), Croatia (1), Cyprus (1), the Czech Republic (3), Djibouti (5), Egypt (1), El Salvador (2), Eritrea (2), Ethiopia (118), France (16), Georgia (2), Germany (33), Greece (67), Guatemala (4), Honduras (1), Hungary (2), India (4), Indonesia (5), Israel (4), Italy (33), Japan (10), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (53), Kyrgyzstan (1), Malta (1), Mexico (43), Mongolia (1), Morocco (2), Namibia (1), the Netherlands (6), Nicaragua (2), North Atlantic (1), the Philippines (1), Portugal (7), Romania (16), the Russian Federation (16), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), South Africa (5), Spain (27), Sri Lanka (1), Syria (1), Taiwan (3), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (24), Thailand (1), Turkey (2), Turkmenistan (6), the United Kingdom (19), United States (318: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming)

• Blancan of El Salvador (1), Mexico (1), United States (4: California, Florida, Idaho, New Mexico)

• Pliocene to Holocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (4), Djibouti (1), Ethiopia (6), France (2), Greece (4), Indonesia (1), Italy (4), Kenya (3), Malawi (3), Myanmar (2), Nepal (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (1), Spain (2), Uganda (2)

• Pliocene of Azerbaijan (1), China (1), Ethiopia (30), Georgia (1), Greece (2), Hungary (4), India (6), Indonesia (10), Italy (11), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (11), Malawi (3), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Romania (6), the Russian Federation (6), South Africa (3), Spain (1), Tajikistan (2), Tanzania (1), Ukraine (2), Uzbekistan (1)

• Baodean of China (1)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1), South Africa (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (3), Kenya (1), South Africa (3), Uganda (1)

• Neogene of Myanmar (1), Taiwan (4), United States (1: West Virginia)

• Miocene of Italy (1), Thailand (1), United States (1: Nebraska)

Total: 1090 collections including 1166 occurrences

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