Twenty-eight localities of fossil elephants (
Stegodon and
Elephas) have hitherto been known in the Pliocene-Pleistocene formations of the Kinki District, Central Japan. By checking these fossils and their geological occurrences, the writer obtained the following stratigraphical succession of these elephant-bearing horizons: Age in letters
Horizon I
Stegodon elephantoides H
2 (Pliocene)
Horizon II {
Stegodon insignis sugiyamai Stegodon shodoensis shodoensis akashiensis I
1 (Pliocene?)
Horizon III {
Elephas namadicus naumanni Stegodon orientalis I
2 (Low. Pleistoc.) Horizon IV
Elephas namadicus naumanni J
2 (Pleistoc.)
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