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Palaeoloxodon cypriotes
Taxonomy
Elephas cypriotes was named by Bate (1903). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kyrenia hills, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial limestone in Cyprus.
It was recombined as Palaeoloxodon cypriotes by Athanassiou et al. (2018), Athanassiou et al. (2019).
It was recombined as Palaeoloxodon cypriotes by Athanassiou et al. (2018), Athanassiou et al. (2019).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1903 | Elephas cypriotes Bate p. 500 |
| 2018 | Palaeoloxodon cypriotes Athanassiou et al. |
| 2019 | Palaeoloxodon cypriotes Athanassiou et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Palaeoloxodon cypriotes Bate 1903
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: Middle Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.12900 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | Cyprus (Northern Cyprus) | Elephas cypriotes (type locality: 238016) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Cyprus | Elephas cypriotes (94329) |