An order of terrestrial mammals (Ferungulata) comprising the elephants and their extinct relatives; typically with a large body size and showing development of a trunk from the nose and upper lip; teeth reduced, upper jaw often with tusks.

It includes elephants and mammoths (Elephantidae), mastodons (Mammutidae) and the Deinotherioidea, Moeritherioidea and Gomphotheridae.