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Plesielephantiformes

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Plesielephantiformes
Temporal range: 56–2 Ma Early Eocene to Early Pleistocene
Partial skeleton of a Deinotherium gigantissimum in the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History in Chisinau.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Suborder: Plesielephantiformes
Shoshani et al., 2001
Families

Plesielephantiformes is an extinct clade of large herbivorous mammals and one of two suborders of the Proboscidea, a group containing elephants and their close relatives.[1]

References

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  1. ^ J. Shoshani; W. J. Sanders; P. Tassy (2001). "Elephants and other Proboscideans: a summary of recent findings and new taxonomic suggestions" (PDF). The World of Elephants - International Congress, Rome 2001: 676–679. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-12.