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Palaeoloxodon antiquus

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae

Taxonomy
Elephas antiquus was named by Falconer and Cautley (1847).

It was recombined as Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus by Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi (1995), Tsoukala and Lister (1998) and Palombo (2005); it was recombined as Palaeoloxodon antiquus by Ferretti (2008), Athanassiou et al. (2018), Konidaris et al. (2018) and Athanassiou et al. (2019).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Elephas antiquus Falconer and Cautley
1995Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi p. 244
1998Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus Tsoukala and Lister
2000Elephas antiquus Athanassiou
2005Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus Palombo p. 107
2008Palaeoloxodon antiquus Ferretti p. 105 figs. Fig. 12
2018Palaeoloxodon antiquus Athanassiou et al.
2018Palaeoloxodon antiquus Konidaris et al.
2019Palaeoloxodon antiquus Athanassiou et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
Tethytheria
orderProboscidea()
suborderElephantiformesTassy 1988
superfamilyElephantoidea
familyElephantidae
subfamilyElephantinaeGray 1821
tribeElephantiniGray 1821
genusPalaeoloxodon
speciesantiquus(Falconer and Cautley 1847)

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 antiquus Falconer and Cautley 1847
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available