Abstract: The genus Stegodon is an Asiatic endemic and includes about 20 species, of which about three are discovered in China. The chronologically earliest known record of the genus (as Stegodon bombifrons) is upper Miocene from the Dhok-Pathan of the Siwalik. It flourished in Pliocene and Pleistocene of south and south-weat of China as well as south-east Asia, and survived until early Holocene and the chronologically latest record is 5000 years B. P. from Jinhua, Zhejiang (Ma et al., 1992).

摘要： 本文记述来自云南、陕西、贵州等地的一些剑齿象化石新材料，回顾了剑齿象的研究历史，对中国常见的剑齿象化石的系统分类作初步探讨，并把它们归并为三个形态种: Stegodon zdanskyi Hopwood; S. elephantoides Clift; S. orientalis Owen。