Elephantidae: Perbedaan antara revisi

 

Elephantidae secara tidak formal dimasukkan dalam '''keluarga gajah''' atau [[paleobiological]] dalam konteks sebagai gajah atau mamut. nama umum [[gajah]] lebih sering mengacu pada spesies yang masih ada, gajah moderen, tapi bisa juga mengacu pada spesies yang sudah punah.

are classified informally as the '''elephant family''', or in a [[paleobiological]] context as elephants and mammoths. The [[common name]] [[elephant]] primarily refers to the living taxa, the modern elephants, but may also refer to a variety of extinct species, in this family and others (see [[Elephant (disambiguation)]]). Other members of Elaphantidae, especially members of ''Mammuthus'', are referred to by the common name [[mammoth]].

 

| doi = 10.1007/PL00006160 | volume = 44 | issue = 4 | pages = 406–413

| last = Ozawa | first = Tomowo | coauthors = Seiji Hayashi, Victor M. Mikhelson

| title = Phylogenetic Position of Mammoth and Steller's Sea Cow Within Tethytheria Demonstrated by Mitochondrial DNA Sequences

| journal = Journal of Molecular Evolution | accessdate = 2009-12-28 | date = 1997-04-24 | pmid = 9089080}}</ref>

These have been assigned with the [[demostylia]]ns to the clade [[Paenungulata]]. In the distant past, members of the hyrax family grew to large sizes, and the common ancestor of all three modern families likely was some kind of amphibious hyracoid.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} One hypothesis is these animals spent most of their time under water, using their trunks like [[Snorkel (swimming)|snorkel]]s for breathing.<ref name = "qvhxbt">{{Citation

| last = West