Elephas iolensis
Elephas iolensis Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Family: | Elephantidae |
Genus: | Elephas |
Species: | †E. iolensis
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Binomial name | |
†Elephas iolensis Pomel, 1895
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Elephas iolensis is an extinct species of large herbivorous mammal belonging to the Elephantidae family. The type specimen is located in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.[1] The species is thought to have lived in the African Savannah during the Late Pleistocene age, between 130,000 and 10,000 years ago.[2][3] It was a direct descendant of Elephas recki and more distantly, Elephas ekorensis.[4] By studying fossils of different species in Genus Elephas, especially the dental morphology, dental similarities have been found among Elephas iolensis and Elephas hysudricus.[5] This linkage indicates a parallel evolution in these two extinct species.
References[]
- ^ Todd, Nancy E. (2010). "New Phylogenetic Analysis of the Family Elephantidae Based on Cranial-Dental Morphology". The Anatomical Record. 293 (1): 74–90. doi:10.1002/ar.21010. PMID 19937636. S2CID 20213228.
- ^ Paul S. Martin, Richard G. Klein (1989). Quaternary Extinctions: A Prehistoric Revolution. University of Arizona Press. p. 91. ISBN 9780816511006.
- ^ Whitfield, John (24 August 2001). "Genes reveal jumbo schism". Nature. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
- ^ Genoways, H.H. (2013). Current Mammalogy, Volume 1. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 131. ISBN 9781475799095.
- ^ Todd, N. E. (2009, November 20). New Phylogenetic Analysis of the Family Elephantidae Based on Cranial‐Dental Morphology. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ar.21010
Categories:
- Prehistoric proboscideans
- Prehistoric afrotherian stubs