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Specimens have been reported from South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi, and possibly Uganda and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, spanning from around 6.2 to 3.75 million years ago.
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622:"A New Assemblage of Mid-Pliocene Proboscideans from the Woranso-Mille Area, Afar Region, Ethiopia: Taxonomic, Evolutionary, and Paleoecological Considerations"
356:. However, other authors have continued to regard the species as distinct, and contend that the similarities between the two species are superficial.
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588:Evolution and Fossil Record of African Proboscidea
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665:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
420:Lister, Adrian; Bahn, Paul. (1 October 2007).
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540:"Proboscidea from Kanapoi, Kenya"
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423:Mammoths: giants of the ice age
374:Specimens intermediate between
348:In 2009, it was suggested that
307:The species was first named as
626:Journal of Mammalian Evolution
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836:Fossil taxa described in 1928
498:Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
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367:Distribution and chronology
309:Archidiskodon subplanifrons
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404:References
336:Mammuthus.
317:Vaal River
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326:Loxodonta
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253:Synonyms
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