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Stegodon aurorae

Stegodon aurorae (Matsumoto, 1918)

Invalid synonym: Stegodon akashiensis, Parastegodon akashiensis, Stegodon sugiyamai, Parastegodon sugiyamai, Stegodon infrequens, Stegodon kwantoensis

• Extinct species (1.9 Ma or later)

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Proboscidea, family Stegodontidae, genus Stegodon

• Distribution
• Pliocene: Mie, Shiga
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Saitama, Gifu, Mie, Shiga, Kagawa
• Pleistocene: Ishikawa, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Shiga, Hyogo

• Distribution (Footprints)
• Pliocene: Shiga
• Pleistocene: Tokyo, Osaka
• Investigation in progress: Gifu