Stegodon

Stegodon Temporal range: Pliocene - Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Family:	Elephantidae
Subfamily:	Stegodontinae
Genus:	Stegodon Falconer, 1847

Stegodon is a genus of the extinct subfamily Stegodontinae of the order Proboscidea. Stegodons lived in large parts of Asia during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. Some Stegodon species were among the largest of all, with adults being 13 feet high at the shoulder, 26 feet long, not including 10 feet long nearly straight tusks.

There are twelve known species of Stegodon:

• Stegodon elephantoides (Myanmar, Java)
• Stegodon sompoensis (Sulawesi, Indonesia)
• Stegodon aurorae (Japan) - Aurora's Stegodont
• Stegodon ganesha (India, Pakistan)
• Stegodon insignis (Pakistan)
• Stegodon zdanski (China)
• Stegodon orientalis (China, Japan) - Oriental Stegodont
• Stegodon shinshuensis (Japan) - Japanese Stegodont
• Stegodon trigonocephalus (Java, Indonesia)
• Stegodon sondaari (Flores, Indonesia)
• Stegodon tetrabelodon syrticus (Shabi, Libya)
• Stegodon florensis (Flores, Indonesia)