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Mammuthus creticus
Taxonomy
Elephas creticus was named by Bate (1907). Its type specimen is AMPG-901, a tooth (upper right third molar), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cape Maleka 1, which is in a Pleistocene/Pleistocene cave sandstone in Greece.
It was recombined as Mammuthus creticus by Athanassiou et al. (2019).
It was recombined as Mammuthus creticus by Athanassiou et al. (2019).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1907 | Elephas creticus Bate |
| 2019 | Mammuthus creticus 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.
†Mammuthus creticus Bate 1907
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, MacFadden and Cerling 1996, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 2.58800 to 0.12900 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | Greece (Crete Island) | Elephas creticus (type locality: 202421) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Greece (Crete) | Mammuthus creticus (94325) |