Proboscidea - Wikipedia Proboscidea ( ˌproʊbəˈsɪdiə ; from Latin proboscis, from Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís) 'elephant's trunk') is a taxonomic order of afrotherian mammals containing one living family (Elephantidae) and several extinct families First described by J Illiger in 1811, it encompasses the elephants and their close relatives [1]
Proboscidean | Evolution, Adaptations Extinction | Britannica proboscidean, (order Proboscidea), any of the group of mammals that includes elephant s and their extinct relatives such as mammoth s and mastodon s Although only three species of elephant are extant today, more than 160 extinct proboscidean species have been identified from remains found on all continents except Australia and Antarctica
PROBOSCIDEAN Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of PROBOSCIDEAN is any of an order (Proboscidea) of large mammals comprising the elephants and extinct related forms (such as mastodons)
Proboscidean Definition Meaning - YourDictionary Proboscidean definition: Any of various mammals of the order Proboscidea, including elephants and their extinct relatives, usually having a trunk and tusks
The Proboscidea - University of California Museum of Paleontology Today there are two living species of Proboscidea: the African elephant Loxodonta africanus and the Asian elephant Elephas maximus However, in the past, there were many members of the order Early relatives Ancestral proboscidean distribution Other ancestral proboscideans include Numidotherium, Barytherium, and Deinotherium
The rise and fall of proboscidean ecological diversity Proboscideans were keystone Cenozoic megaherbivores and present a highly relevant case study to frame the timing and magnitude of recent megafauna extinctions against long-term macroevolutionary
Revisiting proboscidean phylogeny and evolution through total evidence . . . Proboscidea Illiger, 1811 is a mammalian order that includes the extant elephants (Elephas Linnaeus, 1758, and Loxodonta Anonymous, 1827) and a great diversity of extinct species (Shoshani and Tassy, 2005; Gheerbrant and Tassy, 2009) The order originated around 60 million years (Ma) ago in Africa (Gheerbrant, 2009)
ADW: Proboscidea: INFORMATION They are classified as "subungulates" and believed to be related to hyraxes and sirenians Throughout their history, proboscideans have shown a tendency to increase in size