Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Alternative combination: Elephas creticus
Full reference: D. Bate. 1907. On elephant remains from Crete, with description of Elephas creticus n. sp. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1907:238-250
Belongs to Mammuthus according to A. Athanassiou et al. 2019
See also Bate 1907
Sister taxa: Mammuthus chosaricus, Mammuthus columbi, Mammuthus exilis, Mammuthus hayi, Mammuthus lamarmorae, Mammuthus meridionalis, Mammuthus primigenius, Mammuthus trogontherii, Archidiskodon celebensis, Archidiskodon weifangensis, Archidiskodon haroldcooki
Type specimen: AMPG-901, a tooth (upper right third molar). Its type locality is Cape Maleka 1, which is in a Pleistocene/Pleistocene cave sandstone in Greece.
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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