Elephantida

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

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

†Mammutidae (Mastodons)


Elephantida

†Gomphotheriidae (Gomphotheres)


Elephantoidea

†Stegodontidae (Stegodontids)


Elephantidae

Loxodonta (African elephants)


Elephantini

†Palaeoloxodon


Elephantina

Elephas (Asian elephants)

Mammuthus (Mammoths)









References

  1. 1 2 Shoshani, J.; Ferretti, M. P.; Lister, A. M.; Agenbroad, L. D.; Saegusa, H.; Mol, D.; Takahashi, K. (2007). "Relationships within the Elephantinae using hyoid characters". Quaternary International. 169-170: 174. Bibcode:2007QuInt.169..174S. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2007.02.003.


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