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Elephantoidea
Taxonomy
Elephantoidea was named by Gray (1821). It is extant.
It was reranked as the infraorder Elephantoidea by Lambert and Shoshani (1998).
It was assigned to Proboscidea by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Proboscidea by Mahboubi et al. (1984) and Geraads et al. (2005); to Elephantida by Shoshani and Tassy (2005) and Shoshani et al. (2006); to Elephantiformes by Lambert and Shoshani (1998), Sanders (1999), Sanders and Miller (2002) and Christiansen (2007); and to Proboscidea by Paula Couto (1956), McKenna (1975) and Hautier et al. (2009).
It was reranked as the infraorder Elephantoidea by Lambert and Shoshani (1998).
It was assigned to Proboscidea by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Proboscidea by Mahboubi et al. (1984) and Geraads et al. (2005); to Elephantida by Shoshani and Tassy (2005) and Shoshani et al. (2006); to Elephantiformes by Lambert and Shoshani (1998), Sanders (1999), Sanders and Miller (2002) and Christiansen (2007); and to Proboscidea by Paula Couto (1956), McKenna (1975) and Hautier et al. (2009).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1821 | Elephantoidea Gray |
| 1956 | Elephantoidea Paula Couto p. 105 |
| 1975 | Elephantoidea McKenna p. 43 |
| 1984 | Elephantoidea Mahboubi et al. p. 543 |
| 1997 | Elephantoidea McKenna and Bell p. 500 |
| 1998 | Elephantoidea Lambert and Shoshani p. 608 |
| 1999 | Elephantoidea Sanders p. 793 |
| 2002 | Elephantoidea Sanders and Miller p. 389 |
| 2005 | Elephantoidea Geraads et al. p. 526 |
| 2005 | Elephantoidea Shoshani and Tassy p. 9 figs. Table 2 |
| 2006 | Elephantoidea Shoshani et al. p. 17300 |
| 2007 | Elephantoidea Christiansen p. 427 |
| 2009 | Elephantoidea Hautier et al. p. 172 |
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