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Palaeoloxodon antiquus
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).
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).
Subspecies
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1847 | Elephas antiquus Falconer and Cautley |
1995 | Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi p. 244 |
1998 | Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus Tsoukala and Lister |
2000 | Elephas antiquus Athanassiou |
2005 | Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus Palombo p. 107 |
2008 | Palaeoloxodon antiquus Ferretti p. 105 figs. Fig. 12 |
2018 | Palaeoloxodon antiquus Athanassiou et al. |
2018 | Palaeoloxodon antiquus Konidaris et al. |
2019 | Palaeoloxodon antiquus 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 antiquus Falconer and Cautley 1847
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†Elephas antiquus leonardii Aguirre 1969
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available