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Taxon: Superfamily Elephantoidea Gray, 1821 (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Proboscidea

Subsequent positions

Proboscidea (Parvorder) Owen, 1859 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 500.

Original entries

Questionably †Choerolophodontinae (Subfamily) Gaziry, 1976
Questionably Elephantidae (Family) Gray, 1821
Questionably †Gomphotheriidae (Family) Hay, 1922

Current position

Elephantiformes (Suborder) (Tassy, 1988) Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 500. [indirect]

Alternative positions

Proboscidea (Parvorder) Owen, 1859 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 500. [new position]

Historical positions

Proboscidea (Parvorder) Owen, 1859 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 500. [new position]

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 1f;2g;2s;5ss; ‡1f;2g;1s;1ss; †1f;23g;115s;14ss
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 [1f;2g;3s;3ss; ‡1f;2g; †1f;23g]
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [1f;2g; ‡2g; †1f;23g]
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