Stegodontidae
Stegodontidae is an extinct family of Stegodon-like proboscideans that was endemic to Africa and Asia from the Miocene to the Late Pleistocene, with some studies suggesting that some survived into the Holocene in China, although this is disputed.Taxonomy
Stegodontidae was named by Osborn. It was assigned to Mammutoidea by Carroll ; to Elephantoidea by Lambert and Shoshani ; and to Elephantoidea by Shoshani et al.. It contains two of extinct elephant-like genera:
Like all Proboscideans, the clade's position is uncertain: Some authors place it as a daughter clade under the Elephantidae, while others make the Stegodontidae a sister-clade to the Elephantidae.
