The straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) is an extinct species of elephant that inhabited Europe and Western Asia during the Middle and Late...
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Palaeoloxodon (redirect from Antique elephant)
species of elephants, over 4 metres (13 ft) tall at the shoulders, including the African Palaeoloxodon recki, the European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon...
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from the extinct European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) indicates that members of the extinct elephant genus Palaeoloxodon interbred...
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Palaeoloxodon namadicus (redirect from Asian straight-tusked elephant)
authorities historically regarded P. namadicus and the European straight-tusked elephant (P. antiquus) as the same species due to their similar skull morphology...
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Palaeoloxodon falconeri (redirect from Sicilian Dwarf Elephant)
European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus). Palaeoloxodon falconeri derives from the 4 metre tall straight-tusked elephant (P. antiquus)...
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initial split. DNA from the European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) indicates that the extinct elephant genus Palaeoloxodon is more closely...
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northern parts of the Earth, from Europe to North America. The straight-tusked elephant of mainland Europe principally inhabited the Mediterranean, but...
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Proboscidea (redirect from Stem-elephant)
probably evolved from the straight-tusked elephant. Other descendants of the straight-tusked elephant existed in Cyprus. Dwarf elephants of uncertain descent...
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and Late Pleistocene. It is derived from the European mainland straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus). While previously thought to have inhabited...
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contribution to ingestion. Tusks are thought to have adapted to the extra-oral environments, like dry or aquatic or arctic. In most tusked species both the males...
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Palaeoloxodon cypriotes (redirect from Cyprus Dwarf Elephant)
its straight-tusked elephant ancestors, which weighed about 10 tonnes. Their molars however were about 40% of the size of the mainland straight-tusked elephants'...
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Mediterranean dwarf elephants have generally been considered as members of the genus Palaeoloxodon, derived from the continental straight-tusked elephant, Palaeoloxodon...
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Europe were inhabited by large now extinct megafauna including the straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), the narrow-nosed rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus...
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in the Cave of El Castillo may instead show Palaeoloxodon, the "straight-tusked elephant". "Portable art" can be more accurately dated than cave art since...
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cool and wet. Tusks function in digging, debarking, marking, moving objects, and fighting. Elephants are usually right- or left-tusked, similar to humans...
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earliest reliable evidence for elephant hunting is from Lehringen in Germany, where the skeleton of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) dating...
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from the Levant is correlated with the local extinction of the straight-tusked elephant. Nonetheless, H. erectus diet likely varied widely depending upon...
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Elephas (category Elephants)
formerly assigned to this genus, Elephas recki, the straight-tusked elephant E. antiquus and the dwarf elephants E. falconeri and E. cypriotes are now placed...
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Elephant (Elephantidae) spp. Mammoths Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) Dwarf Sardinian mammoth (Mammuthus lamarmorai) Straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon...
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Hou, Y.; Li, Y.; Zhang, J. (2012). "The latest straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon)? "Wild elephants" lived 3000 years ago in North China". Quaternary...
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other species of the interglacial faunal assemblage, including the straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), Merck's rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis)...
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around 400,000 years ago. Animals found at the site include the straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus), fallow...
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Schöningen site (redirect from Schöningen forest elephant)
Irish elk, Merck's rhinoceros and the narrow-nosed rhinoceros, straight-tusked elephant grey wolves, red foxes, stoats, least weasels, and the sabretooth...
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with the lion included the hippopotamus, narrow-nosed rhinoceros, straight-tusked elephant, southern mammoth, moose, steppe bison and fallow deer. Sympatric...
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pattern, coincident with the arrival of the temperate-adapted straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) to Europe. European populations of M....
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Quaternary extinctions, many other megafaunal mammals like the straight-tusked elephant or Merck's rhinoceros existed in Europe as well, that probably...
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sites have been obtained fossils of large mammals, mainly elephants (Straight-tusked elephant), with remains of nearly fifty individuals from each site...
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Columbian mammoth (redirect from Imperial Elephant)
mammoth, larger than the woolly mammoth and the African bush elephant. It had long, curved tusks and four molars at a time, which were replaced six times...
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hemitoechus) Merck's rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis), and the straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus). The site is the type locality of the...
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comparable to Indian Palaeoloxodon namadicus and the European straight-tusked elephant (P. antiquus), with specimens from the Penghu Channel and Taiwan...
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