Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Full reference: A. van der Geer, G. A. Lyras, L. W. Hoek Ostende, J. Vos, and H. Drinia. 2014. A dwarf elephant and a rock mouse on Naxos (Cyclades, Greece) with a revision of the palaeozoogeography of the Cycladic Islands (Greece) during the Pleistocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 404:133-144
Belongs to Palaeoloxodon according to A. Athanassiou et al. 2019
See also Athanassiou et al. 2018 and van der Geer et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Elephas (Euelephas), Elephas (Loxodon), Elephas beyeri, Elephas clifti, Elephas ekorensis, Elephas falconeri, Elephas maximus, Elephas melitensis, Elephas moghrebiensis, Elephas nawataensis, Elephas planifrons, Elephas priscus, Mastodon elephantoides, Palaeoloxodon cypriotes, Palaeoloxodon tiliensis, Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi, Loxodonta (Palaeoloxodon) tokunagai, Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) cephallonicus, Palaeoloxodon naumanni, Palaeoloxodon xylophagou, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis, Palaeoloxodon recki
Type specimen: AMPG 999, a maxilla (isolated maxilla preserving both third molars ). Its type locality is near Trypiti River, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial sandstone in Greece.
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution: found only at near Trypiti River
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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