Stegodon (from the Ancient Greek στέγω (stégō), meaning "to cover", and ὀδούς (odoús), meaning "tooth", named for the distinctive ridges on the animal's molars) is an extinct genus of proboscidean, related to elephants.

2024年9月6日 · The prehistoric evidence of elephant presence in India actually dates back much further than 2.6 million years. Recent fossil discoveries near Dehradun in the Shivalik Range suggest that elephants, particularly of the extinct Stegodon species, inhabited this region as early as 5 to 8 million years ago. This finding enhances our understanding of ...

2008年5月1日 · S.f. insularis subspec. nov. is the youngest securely dated Stegodon recorded from Southeast Asia and co-occurred with the dwarfed H. floresiensis. Both became extinct during a volcanic eruption around 12 ka BP. Considering dental morphology, S.f. insularis is the most advanced member of the genus Stegodon, with 12 ridges in the lower M 2 ...

2016年3月29日 · Stegodon is an elephant-like proboscidean that was fairly common across Asia during the Plio-Pleistocene. It appeared during the late Miocene. The last representatives of the Stegodon disappeared in Indonesia (southeastern Asia) at the end of the Pleistocene, about 12,000 years ago.

2023年10月31日 · The family Stegodontidae is composed of the two genera, Stegolophodon and Stegodon. This family first appeared in Asia during the early Miocene and became one of the dominant faunas of Asia during the Pliocene and Pleistocene.

2020年10月9日 · Ancient Origins articles related to stegodon in the sections of history, archaeology, human origins, unexplained, artifacts, ancient places and myths and

The genus Stegodon, (from Greek stegos: meaning roof, and odon: meaning tooth, refering to the step ridges on the molar tooth) belongs to belongs to the family Stegodontidae (which belongs to the true Mastodons, Mastodontoidea), and has its origins in the late Miocene of Asia.

2024年9月23日 · Stegodon (meaning "roofed tooth" from the Greek words στέγειν stegein 'to cover' and ὀδούς odous 'tooth') is a genus of the extinct subfamily Stegodontinae of the order Proboscidea. It was assigned to the family Elephantidae (Abel, 1919), but has also been placed in Stegodontidae (R. L. Carroll, 1988).

Dwarf species of elephants and Stegodon have been found on the islands of Indonesia and the Philippines, with dwarfed species of Stegodon also having been found in Japan. The Channel Islands of California once supported the pygmy mammoth , a dwarf species descended from Columbian mammoths , [ 1 ] while the woolly mammoths that existed on ...

Stegodon may have looked superficially very familiar to us, but its direct ancestors lived even before Asian elephants, African elephants, and mammoths began their separate evolutionary journeys. They existed from 11 million years ago to as recently as 6,000 years ago in Asia, Africa and even North America.