Biology:Plesielephantiformes

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Short description: Extinct suborder of mammals

Plesielephantiformes
Temporal range: 56–2 Ma
Early Eocene to Early Pleistocene
Schelet de Deinotherium, Chișinău, R. Moldova.jpg
Partial skeleton of a Deinotherium gigantissimum in the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History in Chisinau.
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Suborder: Plesielephantiformes
Shoshani et al., 2001
Families

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]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q24884000 entry