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Order
Proboscidea
Owen, 1859
- elephants
(mammal)
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Entity:
Behemota (Clade)
..†Desmostylia (Order)
..†Embrithopoda (Order)
..Proboscidea (Order) - elephants
....†Afrochoerodon (Genus)
....†Afromastodon (Genus)
....†Anthracobunidae (Family)
....†Barytheriidae (Family)
....†Chilgatherium (Genus)
....†Deinotheriidae (Family)
....Elephantiformes (Suborder)
....†Eritherium (Genus)
....†Hemimastodontidae (Family)
....†Moeritheriidae (Family)
....†Numidotheriidae (Family)
....†Palaeomastodontidae (Family)
....†Phiomiidae (Family)
....†Progomphotherium (Genus)
Authorship
Subsequent rank
:
1859. Owen, 1859
: 52.
Incorrect (rank-group) authorship
:
Illiger, C. 1811. Prodr. Syst. Mamm. Avium
: 96 ("Familia").
≡
Variants
Subsequent rank
:
Proboscidea
(Parvorder)
Owen, 1859
Ref:
M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
: 497 (note 1).
[
new
] [inferred]
Later rank
:
Proboscidea
(Parvorder)
Owen, 1859
Ref:
M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
: 497 (note 1).
[
new
]
Former rank
:
Proboscidea
(Subclass)
Owen, 1859
Ref:
M.J. Benton, 2015
: 444.
[inferred]
Former rank
:
Proboscidea
(Parvorder)
Owen, 1859
Ref:
M.J. Benton, 2015
: 444.
[inferred]
Former unranked name
:
Proboscidea
(Clade)
Owen 1859
Ref:
D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011
: 57.
[inferred]
Homonyms
Senior homonym (allowed)
:
Proboscidea
(Genus)
Schmidel (1763)
Ref:
S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present
: 23 Aug 2021.
Junior homonym (allowed)
:
Proboscidea
(Class)
Lankester, 1877
Ref:
S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present
: 3 Apr 2022.
Synonyms
Accepted name
:
Hemiptera
(Order)
Linnaeus, 1758
Ref:
PBDB
: 13 Sep 2015.
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
slurfdieren
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
elephants
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28 Aug 2026