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Extinct suborder of mammals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plesielephantiformes is an extinct clade of large herbivorous mammals and one of two suborders of the Proboscidea, a group containing elephants and their close relatives.[1]
Plesielephantiformes Temporal range: Eocene to Early Pleistocene Early | |
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Partial skeleton of a Deinotherium gigantissimum in the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History in Chisinau. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Suborder: | †Plesielephantiformes Shoshani et al., 2001 |
Families | |
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