Elephantoid

Elephantoidea

Elephantoidea

Superfamily of mammals

Elephantoidea is a taxonomic group that contains the elephants as well as their closest extinct relatives, including stegodontids and "tetralophodont gomphotheres", the latter of which are otherwise placed in Gomphotheriidae. An autapomorphic feature of the group is the presence of a checkerboard pattern formed by dentinal tubules.[1]

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References

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    Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Jean-Loup Welcomme, Laurent Marivaux, Ibrahim Baloch, Mouloud Benammi, Pascal Tassy (2003). "First record of Paleogene Elephantoidea (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the Bugti Hills of Pakistan". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23 (4): 977–980. doi:10.1671/2453-25. ISSN 0272-4634. Archived from the original on 2023-02-13.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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