Proboscidea

• Metazoa? - (superphylum)
  • Chordata - (phylum)
    • Vertebrata? - (subphylum)
      • Mammalia - (class)
        • Theria? - (subclass)
          • Eutheria? - (metaclass)
            • Proboscidea - (order)
              • Elephantiadae? - (family)
                • [Loxodonta africana]? - (species)
                • [Elephas maximus]? - (species)

Proboscidea is an order in the animal taxonomy including only one family (the elephants with 2 species, the [African elephant]? and the [Indian elephant]?. During the period of the Ice Age there were more, now [extinct species]?, like mammoths and mastodont?s.