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). Stegodonts were present f...
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stegodon Any of the various extinct elephant-like mammals of the genus Stegodon and related genera, of the Pliocene to the Pleistocene. The creature was named with steg + -odon, 'tooth, teeth', because of the distinctive ridges on its molars.
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any extinct elephantlike mammal of the genus Stegodon, from the late Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, usually considered to be directly ancestral to the modern elephant.
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