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Elephantoidea

Index Elephantoidea

Elephantoidea is a taxonomic group that contains the elephants as well as their closest extinct relatives. [1]

14 relations: African elephant, Anancidae, Cladogram, Elephantida, Elephantidae, Elephantimorpha, Elephas, Gomphothere, Hyoid bone, John Edward Gray, Mammoth, Mammutidae, Palaeoloxodon, Stegodontidae.

African elephant

African elephants are elephants of the genus Loxodonta.

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Anancidae

Anancidae is an extinct family of large herbivorous mammals that were closely related to elephants.

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Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

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Elephantida

Elephantida is a group that contains the elephants as well as their extinct relatives, the gomphotheres and stegodontids.

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Elephantidae

Elephantidae is a family of large, herbivorous mammals collectively called elephants and mammoths.

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Elephantimorpha

Elephantimorpha is a group that contains the elephants as well as their extinct relatives, the gomphotheres and stegodontids.

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Elephas

Elephas is one of two surviving genera in the family of elephants, Elephantidae, with one surviving species, the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus.

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Gomphothere

Gomphotheres are any members of the diverse, extinct taxonomic family Gomphotheriidae.

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Hyoid bone

The hyoid bone (lingual bone or tongue-bone) is a horseshoe-shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage.

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John Edward Gray

John Edward Gray, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist.

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Mammoth

A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, proboscideans commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair.

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Mammutidae

Mammutidae is an extinct family of proboscideans that appeared during the Miocene epoch and survived until the start of the Holocene.

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Palaeoloxodon

Palaeoloxodon is an extinct genus that contains the various species of straight-tusked elephant.

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Stegodontidae

Stegodontidae is an extinct family of proboscideans that lived from the Miocene through the Pleistocene period, endemic to Africa and Asia from 15.97 to 3.6 Ma.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantoidea

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