Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Alternative combination: Elephas tiliensis
Full reference: G. Theodorou, N. Symeonidis, and E. Stathopoulou. 2007. Elephas tiliensis n. sp. from Tilos island (Dodecanese, Greece). Hellenic Journal of Geosciences 42:19-32
Belongs to Palaeoloxodon according to A. Athanassiou et al. 2019
See also Theodorou et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) cephallonicus, Loxodonta (Palaeoloxodon) tokunagai, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi, Palaeoloxodon cypriotes, Palaeoloxodon lomolinoi, Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis, Palaeoloxodon namadicus, Palaeoloxodon naumanni, Palaeoloxodon recki, Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus, Palaeoloxodon xylophagou
Type specimen: AMPG.T, various numbers, a skeleton. Its type locality is Charkadio Cave, Tilos, which is in a Pleistocene cave horizon in Greece.
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution: found only at Charkadio Cave, Tilos
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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