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Elephas beyeri is an extinct species of dwarf elephant known from the Middle Pleistocene. [1] It was named after the anthropologist H. Otley Beyer . [ 2 ] The type specimen, a partial molar tooth, was discovered on Cabarruyan Island in the Philippines but has since been lost.
B. p. sinensis went extinct in the Korean Peninsula during the Three Kingdoms period about 100 BCE to 300 CE, and became extinct in Mongolia and Central Asia during the Iron Age. [citation needed] Cebu tamaraw: Bubalus cebuensis: Cebu, Philippines Described from a partial skeleton from either the Late Pleistocene or the Holocene. [76] Bubalus ...
Stegodon ("roofed tooth" from the Ancient Greek words στέγω, stégō, 'to cover', + ὀδούς, odoús, 'tooth' because of the distinctive ridges on the animal's molars) is an extinct genus of proboscidean, related to elephants.
Sicily and Malta were inhabited by two successive waves of dwarf elephants derived from P. antiquus, which first arrived on the islands at least 500,000 years ago. The first of these species is P. falconeri, which is one of the smallest dwarf elephant species at around 1 metre (3.3 ft) tall, and was strongly modified from its ancestor in numerous aspects, which lived in a depauperate fauna ...
Elephas maximus sondaicus – Javan elephant † Elephas maximus rubridens – Chinese elephant † Elephas maximus asurus – Syrian elephant † The following Elephas species are extinct: Elephas beyeri – dwarf elephant species described from fossil remains found in 1911 in Luzon, the Philippines by von Königswald [15]
According to the IUCN, all elephant species are endangered. African forest elephants are listed as critically endangered , while African savanna and Asian elephants have been listed as endangered.
Palaeoloxodon is an extinct genus of elephant. ... [32] [33] [34] The youngest dates for the Sicilian dwarf elephant P. cf. mnaidriensis are around 32-20,000 years ...
An aerial view shows endangered African elephants in Botswana’s Okavango Dela. The delta was also where the dead elephants were first spotted in 2020. The mass die-off of hundreds of the animals ...