Loxodonta Anonymous 1827 (African elephant)

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae

Full reference: Anonymous. 1827. Histoire Naturelle des Mammifères, avec des Figures originales, dessinées d’après des Animaux vivans; &c. Par MM. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, et F. Cuvier. Livraisons 52de et 53eme. Zoological Journal 3(9):140-143

Parent taxon: Loxodontini according to N. Rohland et al. 2010

See also Barriel et al. 1999, Carroll 1988, Christiansen 2007, Kalb and Frohelich 1995, Maglio 1970, Maglio 1973, McKenna and Bell 1997, Rogaev et al. 2006, Sanders 2007, Shoshani and Tassy 1996, Shoshani and Tassy 2005 and Wilson and Reeder 2005

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Loxodonta adaurora Loxodonta africana Loxodonta atlantica Loxodonta cookei Loxodonta cyclotis Loxodonta exoptata

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), Cameroon (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Djibouti (1), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (6), Kenya (11), Libya (1), Mali (1), Morocco (3), Rwanda (1), Somalia (1), South Africa (16), Sudan (5), Tanzania (7), Zambia (1), Zimbabwe (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2), Malawi (3)

• Pliocene of Chad (3), Ethiopia (15), Kenya (15), Malawi (2), South Africa (1), Tanzania (24), Uganda (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1), Uganda (9)

• Miocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (1)

Total: 142 collections including 149 occurrences

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