Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Alternative combination: Elephas recki
Belongs to Palaeoloxodon according to M. P. Ferretti 2008
See also Geraads et al. 2004, Maglio 1973 and Sanders 2007
Sister taxa: Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) cephallonicus, Loxodonta (Palaeoloxodon) tokunagai, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi, Palaeoloxodon cypriotes, Palaeoloxodon lomolinoi, Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis, Palaeoloxodon namadicus, Palaeoloxodon naumanni, Palaeoloxodon tiliensis, Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus, Palaeoloxodon xylophagou
Subtaxa: Elephas recki recki Palaeoloxodon recki atavus Palaeoloxodon recki brumpti Palaeoloxodon recki ileretensis
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Djibouti (5 collections), Egypt (1), Eritrea (2), Ethiopia (118), Kenya (48), Namibia (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (2), Tanzania (24)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Djibouti (1), Ethiopia (6), Kenya (2), Malawi (3), South Africa (1), Uganda (3)
• Pliocene to Holocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (22), Kenya (5), Malawi (1)
Total: 250 collections including 261 occurrences
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