Proboscidea
Proboscidea is an
order including only one family, the
elephants, with 3
species: the
Savanna Elephant, the
Forest Elephant and the
Asian Elephant (formerly known as the Indian Elephant). During the period of the
ice age there were more, now
extinct species, including the elephant-like
mammoth and
mastodont and the "shovel tuskers", the
platybelodon and
amebelodon.
