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Straight-tusked Elephants
Palaeoloxodon
Palaeoloxodon is an extinct genus that contains the various species of straight-tusked elephants. Its species' remains have been found in Bilzingsleben, Germany; Cyprus; Japan; India; Sicily; Malta; and England during the excavation of the second Channel Tunnel. The English discovery, in 2006 in northwest Kent, dated to around 400,000 years ago, and was of a single adult; associated with it were Palaeolithic stone butchering tools of the type used by Homo heidelbergensis. One species, Palaeoloxodon namadicus,...
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first
African Straight-tusked Elephant
speciesPalaeoloxodon recki
Eurasian Straight-tusked Elephant
speciesPalaeoloxodon antiquus
Asian Straight-tusked Elephant
speciesPalaeoloxodon namadicus
Sicilian Dwarf Elephant
speciesPalaeoloxodon falconeri
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 936336.