Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Alternative combination: Dinotherium giganteum
Synonyms: Deinotherium gigantissimum Stef?nescu 1892, Deinotherium levius Jourdan 1868, Dinotherium gigantissimum Stef?nescu 1892, Dinotherium levius Jourdan 1868
Belongs to Deinotherium according to N. Poulakakis et al. 2005
See also Aiglstorfer et al. 2014, Athanassiou 2004, Bergounioux and Crouzel 1961, Geraads et al. 2005, Kaup 1832, Shoshani and Tassy 1996, Shoshani and Tassy 2005 and Tsoukala and Melentis 1994
Sister taxa: Deinotherium bozasi, Deinotherium hobleyi, Deinotherium indicum, Deinotherium proavum, Dinotherium indicum, Dinotherium konigii, Dinotherium pentapotamiae, Dinotherium sindiense
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Ukraine (6 collections)
• Miocene of Austria (7), Bulgaria (6), France (2), Georgia (3), Germany (1), Greece (3), Hungary (1), Kazakhstan (1), Moldova (3), Romania (1), Spain (3), Turkey (3), Ukraine (5)
Total: 45 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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