![]() ![]() It is believed that the Stegodon along with other prehistoric mammals entered Mindanao through the land bridge known as the Sunda Shelf and migrated northward.īut the Stegodon and the Dwarf Elephants eventually became extinct and it wasn’t until much later that elephants were again found in Southern Philippines when Bornean elephants were gifted to the Sultans of Sulu and Maguindanao by the Sultanate of Java.Įlephants comprise three living species and are the largest living land animals. and fragments of leg bones which were found in Barangay Sinai, Municipality of Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental, some 30 kilometers from Cagayan de Oro in 2010.”Īside from the Stegodon, Dwarf Elephants were also believed to have lived in the Philippines during the Pleistocene era, specifically in Luzon and Panay. “The fossils included some pieces of the tusk, pieces of rib bones. “The National Museum later corroborated the finds, and identified it as Stegodon Mindanensis,” said Luis Ostique, museum operations and administration officer. Stegodon fossil bones exhibit at the Xavier University Museo de Oro (right). Stegodon fossil bones and tusk fragments at the XU Museo de Oro (left). Stegodon is considered to be a sister group of elephants and mammoths. ![]() Stegodon may be derived from Stegolophodon, an extinct genus known from the Miocene of Asia. ![]() Stegodons were previously believed to be ancestors of the true elephants and mammoths, but currently they are believed to have no modern descendants. In the Museo de Oro of Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan is an exhibit of the fossilized bones identified as those of a Stegodon which lived from 11.6 million years ago (mya) to the late Pleistocene, and found in Asia and Africa, when it was more prevalent than the Asian elephants. Although it is politically divided among three countries with Malaysia and Brunei in the north, and Indonesia to the south, approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory.Įarlier in history, the Philippines indeed had an indigenous progenitor of the elephant. Borneo is the third- largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. ![]()
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