Stegodontidae
| Stegodontidae Temporal range: Miocene–Holocene |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
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†Stegodontidae Osborn (1918) |
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Stegodontidae is an extinct family of proboscideans that lived from the Miocene through the period, endemic to Africa and Asia from 20.43 to 0.0041 Ma. Although commonly regarded a family, they are often seen as a subfamily (Stegodontinae) of the true elephants (family Elephantidae).
Stegodontidae was named by Osborn (1918). It was assigned to Mammutoidea by Carroll (1988); to Elephantoidea by Lambert and Shoshani (1998); and to Elephantoidea by Shoshani et al. (2006).
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