Elephant

Elephant Temporal range: Pliocene–Present PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
	A female African bush elephant in Mikumi Naitional Pairk, Tanzanie
Scienteefic clessification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Faimily:	Elephantidae
Subfaimily:	Elephantinae
Groups included
	Loxodonta Anonymous, 1827; Elephas Linnaeus, 1758;
Cladeestically includit but tradeetionally excludit taxa
	†Mammuthus Brookes, 1828; †Palaeoloxodon Matsumoto, 1925 (technically pairt o Loxodonta); †Primelephas Maglio, 1970;

The elephant is a muckle laund mammal o the order Proboscidea an the faimlie Elephantidae. Thare are twa bidin spece: the African bush an the Asie elephant (cried the Indie elephant an aw). Ither spece hae become extinct langsyne the last ice age, the mammoths bein the maist kenspeckle o thaim. Thay war ance clessifee'd alang wi ither thick skinned ainimals in a nou invalid order, Pachydermata.