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| Stegodon
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| A life restoration of Stegodon
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Chordata
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| Class:
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Mammalia
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| Order:
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Proboscidea
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| Family:
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†Stegodontidae
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| Genus:
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†Stegodon
Falconer, 1847
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| Referred species
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- †Stegodon aurorae
(Matsumoto, 1918)
- †Stegodon elephantoides
(Clift, 1828)
- †Stegodon florensis
(Hooijer, 1957)
- †Stegodon ganesha
(Faloner & Cautley, 1846) (type)
- †Stegodon kaisensis
(Hopwood, 1939)
- †Stegodon luzonensis
(von Koenigswald, 1956)
- †Stegodon miensis
(Matsumoto, 1941)
- †Stegodon mindanensis
(Naumann, 1890)
- †Stegodon orientalis
(Owen, 1870)
- †Stegodon sompoensis
(Hooijer, 1964)
- †Stegodon sondaari
(van den Bergh, 1999)
- †Stegodon trigonocephalus
(Martin, 1887)
- †Stegodon zdanskyi
(Hopwood, 1935)
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Stegodon was a species of Proboscidean that was directly related to modern elephants. It lived in Eocene Africa.
Their are Pygmy Stegodon in Indonesia.
Morphology[]
Size[]
Stegodon was one of the largest proboscideans, along with more derived genera.
Taxonomy[]
