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Stegodon sp.

genus Stegodon Falconer, 1847

Invalid synonym: Parastegodon sp.

• Extinct species: Pliocene - Pleistocene (5.3 - 0.012 Ma)

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

• Distribution
• Miocene-Pliocene: Nagano
• Pliocene: Miyagi, Ibaraki, Tokyo, Gifu, Mie, Shiga, Fukuoka
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Saitama, Kanagawa, Mie, Shiga, Shimane, Kagawa
• Quaternay: Okayama, Fukuoka
• Pleistocene: Ishikawa, Tochigi, Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shiga, Kyoto, Hyogo, Yamaguchi, Oita

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

• Subtaxa
• S. aurorae
• S. elephantoides
• S. miensis
• S. orientalis
• S. protoaurorae