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Palaeoloxodon falconeri is an extinct species of dwarf elephant from the Middle Pleistocene (around 500–200,000 years ago) of Sicily and Malta. It is amongst the smallest of all dwarf elephants, under 1 metre (3.3 ft) in height as fully grown adults.
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 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.
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 ...
Palaeoloxodon tiliensis is an extinct species of dwarf elephant belonging to the genus Palaeoloxodon. It was endemic to the small Dodecanese island of Tilos in the Aegean Sea off of the coast of Anatolia during the Late Pleistocene and possibly the Holocene, with remains have been found in Charkadio cave on the island.
Palaeoloxodon cypriotes is an extinct species of dwarf elephant that inhabited the island of Cyprus during the Late Pleistocene.A probable descendant of the large straight-tusked elephant of mainland Europe and West Asia, the species is among the smallest known dwarf elephants, with fully grown individuals having an estimated shoulder height of only 1 metre (3.3 ft).
Skeletons of the extinct Palaeoloxodon falconeri, native to Sicily and Malta, it is one of the smallest known species of dwarf elephant.Adult males measured about one meter in shoulder height and weighed about 250 kg (550 lb).
Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis is an extinct species of dwarf elephant belonging to the genus Palaeoloxodon, native to the Siculo-Maltese archipelago during the late Middle Pleistocene and Late Pleistocene. It is derived from the European mainland straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus). [2]