Parent taxon: Proboscidea according to S.-Q. Wang et al. 2017
See also Andrews 1906, Carroll 1988, McKenna and Bell 1997, Sanders et al. 2010, Shoshani and Tassy 1996, Shoshani and Tassy 2005 and Simpson 1945
Sister taxa: Arcanotherium, Barytherioidea, Caenobasileus, Caenobasileus tremontigerus, Choerolophodontidae, Cryptomastodon, Deinotherioidea, Deinotherioidea, Dinotherioidea, Elephantiformes, Elephantimorpha, Eritherium, Euelephantoidea, Gomphotheriidae, Hemimastodontidae, Mastodontidae, Mastodontoidea, Moeritherioidea, Neodesmostylus, Plesielephantiformes, Saloumia
Subtaxa: Phiomia major Phiomia serridens
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Angola (1 collection), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2), Libya (1), Oman (1)
• Eocene of Libya (2)
Total: 10 collections including 11 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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