Stegodon timorensis Sartono, 1969

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

Timor Island, East Nusa Tenggara

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Sartono, S. (1969). Stegodon timorensis: a pygmy species from Timor (Indonesia) Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Series B 72: 192-202.

Other references:

Hooijer, D. A. (1969). Stegodon from Timor. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Series B 72: 201-210.

Hooijer, D. A. (1972). Stegodon trigonocephalus florensis Hooijer and Stegodon timorensis Sartono from the Pleistocene of Flores and Timor. I & II. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Series B 75: 12-33.

Lemoine, Rhys Taylor, Buitenwerf, Robert, Faurby, Sören and Svenning, Jens-Christian. (2025). Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(7): e70078. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70078 [Supporting Information: Data S1]

Louys, J., Price, G. J. and O’Connor, S. (2016). Direct dating of Pleistocene stegodon from Timor Island, East Nusa Tenggara. PeerJ 4: e1788.

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