Talk:Stegodon

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[edit] Dwarf elephant

Should this page be merged with Dwarf elephant?

--Jarich 23:35, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

No, because the Dwarf elephant page isn't only referring to Stegodons. For example, the dwarf elephants that it refers to on Wrangel Island were mammoths, not Stegodons. The Singing Badger 00:58, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC) And don't forget the dwarf elephants of the Mediterranean islands, and the Channel Islands in California. Pmaas 20:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Number of valid species

There are more species named than described here! Does anyone know more on this. Are some synonyms or are they all valid. I know that Stegodon (Parastegodon) akashiensis has subsequently been synonymised with Stegodon aurorae (Taruno 1991). Pmaas 20:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

I know that Stegodon airawana is a synonym of Stegodon trigonocephalus. gdvdb 23:45, 17 January 2006

[edit] Additions

I've extended the Stegodon entry a little, by adding some remarks on their ancestry and relationships, and on dwarfing of stegodonts on islands. The notion that all stegodonts had straight tusks that were so close together that the trunk supposedly could not pas in between them, is based on a single individual described by Hooijer (195?) and shown in the exposition hall of the Natural History Museum NATURALIS in Leiden, The Netherlands. However, I've seen many stegodon tusks that are all curved, in fact the only straight tusks I've seen are those in the Leiden museum.

gdvdb 23:45, 17 January 2006