elephantid
The family otherwise known as the elephant family. Unlike the term "elephant" which is most commonly used to refer to only extant members of this family, "elephantid" is used to refer to any member of the elephantid family, including prehistoric members like the mammoth and stegotetrabelodon. It does not refer to other non-elephantid-family proboscidean members (e.g. mastodon, gomphotherium), however, so that term…
