The elephant Stegodon also became extinct at this time.

They are found in the same archeological layer as an elephant of the extinct genus Stegodon.

The most important difference between Stegodon and the (other) Elephantidae can be observed in the molars.

Their cave shows evidence of the use of fire for cooking, and Stegodon bones associated with the hominins have cut marks.

Similarly, Stegodon and Stegolophodon have sometimes been placed in Stegodontidae.

There are twelve known species of Stegodon:

Some of these tools were apparently used in the necessarily cooperative hunting of Stegodon by these hominins.

In 1925 he discovered tusks and fragments of the extinct elephant-like animal already described as Stegodon ganesa.

The dwarfed Stegodon sompoensis lived during the Pleistocene on the island of Sulawesi.

The following cladogram shows the placement of the genus Stegodon among other proboscideans, based on hyoid characteristics:

It lived in the Miocene and Pliocene Epochs, and may have evolved into Stegodon.

Other islands where dwarf stegodon have been found are Sulawesi, Flores, Timor and other islands of the Lesser Sundas.

The Komodo dragon may have evolved to feed on the extinct dwarf elephant Stegodon that once lived on Flores, according to evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond.

In 1951, a 2 Anna Indian postage stamp to commemorate the centenary of the Geological Survey of India illustrated Stegodon ganesa was released.

Local geology suggests that a volcanic eruption on Flores approximately 12,000 years ago was responsible for the demise of H. floresiensis, along with other local fauna, including the elephant Stegodon.

Flores was also the habitat of several extinct dwarf forms of the proboscidean Stegodon, the most recent (Stegodon florensis insularis) disappearing approximately 12 000 years ago.

In March 1913, a fossil tooth from a Parastegodon (similar to the Stegodon genus) was found in what is now Yurigaoka 2-19 in the upper sedimentary layers of mudstone.

The Cagayan valley of northern Luzon contains large stone tools as evidence for the hunters of the big game of the time: the elephant-like stegodon, rhinoceros, crocodile, tortoise, pig and deer.

Stegodon florensis insularis is an extinct subspecies of Stegodon endemic to the island of Flores, Indonesia and an example of insular dwarfism.

The present understanding of the succession of Stegodon species on Flores is that endemic dwarfs, represented by the Early Pleistocene species Stegodon sondaarii, became extinct around 840,000 years ago.

The main building consists of three floors, with the first floor devoted primarily to fishes and amphibians, with reptiles and birds represented on the second floor, and mammals (including examples of megafauna like Stegodon) on the third floor.

It is not to be confused with the genus Mammut from a different proboscidean family, whose members are commonly called "mastodons", nor with the genus Stegodon, from yet another proboscidean sub-family, whose members are commonly called "stegodonts".

A review of 130 papers written about 180 different sites with proboscidean remains in southern China revealed Stegodon to have been more common than Asian elephants; the papers gave many recent radiocarbon dates, the youngest being 2,150 BCE (4,100 BP).

Located on upper and middle Shiwaliks, consisting mainly of soft sandstone and clay rocks, the park at present has six sets of life-size models, of Stegodon Ganesha, Sivatherium, Hexaprotodon sivalensis, Colossochelys atlas, Paramachairodus and Crocodilia, Mesozoic animals which once thrived in the region.

These dwarf forms were then replaced by the medium to large-sized Stegodon florensis, a species closely related to the Stegodon trigonocephalus group found both in Java and in the islands of biogeographical Wallacea, separated by deep water from the Asian and Australian continental shelves.