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).