Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Alternative combination: Elephas cypriotes
Full reference: D. M. Bate. 1903. Preliminary note on the discovery of a pigmy elephant in the Pleistocene of Cyprus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 71(475):498-500
Belongs to Palaeoloxodon according to A. Athanassiou et al. 2019
See also Athanassiou et al. 2018 and Bate 1903
Sister taxa: Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) cephallonicus, Loxodonta (Palaeoloxodon) tokunagai, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi, Palaeoloxodon lomolinoi, Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis, Palaeoloxodon namadicus, Palaeoloxodon naumanni, Palaeoloxodon recki, Palaeoloxodon tiliensis, Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus, Palaeoloxodon xylophagou
Type specimen: Its type locality is Kyrenia hills, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial limestone in Cyprus
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Cyprus (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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