Elephantida

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Elephantidans
Temporal range: Miocene - Holocene, 23–0 Ma
Gomphotherium
Gomphotherium skeleton
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Clade: Elephantimorpha
Clade: Elephantida
Tassy & Shoshani, 1997
Subgroups[1]

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Elephantida is a group that contains the elephants as well as their extinct relatives, the gomphotheres and stegodontids. The following cladogram shows the relationships among elephantidans, based on hyoid characteristics:[1]
Elephantimorpha

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Elephantida

<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Gomphotheriidae (Gomphotheres)

Elephantoidea

<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Stegodontidae (Stegodontids)

Elephantidae

Loxodonta (African elephants)

Elephantini

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Elephantina

Elephas (Asian elephants)


Mammuthus (Mammoths)








References

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