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 (Palaeoloxodon) cephallonicus, Loxodonta (Palaeoloxodon) tokunagai, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi, Palaeoloxodon cypriotes, Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis, Palaeoloxodon namadicus, Palaeoloxodon naumanni, Palaeoloxodon recki, Palaeoloxodon tiliensis, Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus, Palaeoloxodon xylophagou

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

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.