Stegodon trigonocephalus

Peter Maas · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StegodonPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Elephantidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Elephantidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Stegodon trigonocephalus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
6 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Stegodon trigonocephalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Stegodon trigonocephalus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Stegodon trigonocephalus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Bubalus palaeokerabau4 sites
- Homo erectus4 sites
- Bos (Bibos)3 sites
- Cervus lydekkeri3 sites
- Hexaprotodon sivalensis3 sites
- Muntiacus muntjak3 sites
- Panthera tigris3 sites
- Cervidae2 sites
- Crocodylus siamensis2 sites
- Duboisia santeng2 sites
- Elephas hysudrindicus2 sites
- Gavialis bengawanicus2 sites
- Rhinoceros sondaicus2 sites
- Rusa2 sites
- Sus2 sites
- Sus brachygnathus2 sites
- Tapirus indicus2 sites
- Amyda cartilaginea1 site
- Antilopini1 site
- Apodemus1 site
- Arvicola1 site
- Barbus1 site
- Batagur affinis1 site
- Bison priscus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Stegodon trigonocephalus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- The Late Neogene elephantoid-bearing faunas of Indonesia and their palaeozoogeographic implications. A study of the terrestrial faunal succession of Sulawesi, Flores and Java, including evidence for early hominid dispersal east of Wallace's Line4
- Les grands mammiferes du gisement Pleistocene Moyen de Latamne (Vallee de l'Oronte, Syrie)1
- Das geologische Alter der Kendeng-oder Trinil-Fauna1
Each of the 6 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Stegodon trigonocephalus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Peter Maas
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Stegodon trigonocephalus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itStegodon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martin 1887