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

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 ...

PLEISTOCENE pygmy stegodonts have been described from the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi, Flores and Timor1-i which are now separated by deep seas.

Jul 21, 2014 · The shorter legs of some of the pygmy elephants and pygmy stegodons may have been an adaptation for what palaeontologist Paul Sondaar described as “low gear locomotion”, allowing these pygmies to scramble up and down cliffs and over rocks to reach upland pastures.

Stegodon’s oversized tusks could grow almost as long as its entire body. They could even grow so close together, the animal might have had to lean its trunk sideways. Like modern elephants, Stegodon was probably a capable swimmer, and that may be how it colonized a number of islands throughout Asia from the Philippines to Japan.

Feb 14, 2021 · Stegodon evolved from Stegolophodons and appeared for the first time in the Middle Pliocene in Asia. From here the genus spread to Africa, where it also occurred south of the Sahara. Here, however, Stegodon disappeared before the Pleistocene.

Apr 1, 2010 · Previous excavations at Mata Menge and Boa Lesa in the Soa Basin of Flores, Indonesia, recovered stone artefacts in association with fossilized remains of the large-bodied Stegodon florensis florensis. Zircon fission-track ages from these sites indicated that hominins had colonized the island by 0.8 …

PLEISTOCENE pygmy stegodonts have been described from the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi, Flores and Timor1–4 which are now separated by deep seas. Hooijer4 suggested that the two forms Stegodon trigonocephalus florensis and Stegodon timorensis apparently coexisted in Flores as well as in Timor, although they may not have been strictly ...

A pygmy Stegodon from the middle Pleistocene of Eastern Java. Zoologische Mededelingen , 33 (14), 91–102. Free Full Text ( Final Version , 1mb )

Jan 1, 2012 · A distinctive Quaternary vertebrate fauna containing the small-bodied hominin Homo floresiensis, pygmy Stegodon proboscideans, varanids and giant murids has been described from Flores, but ...