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  2. Palaeoloxodon namadicus - Wikipedia

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    Palaeoloxodon namadicus is an extinct species of prehistoric elephant known from the Middle Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene of the Indian subcontinent, and possibly also elsewhere in Asia. The species grew larger than any living elephant, and some authors have suggested it to have been the largest known land mammal based on extrapolation from ...

  3. Palaeoloxodon - Wikipedia

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    Palaeoloxodon is an extinct genus of elephant. The genus originated in Africa during the Early Pleistocene, and expanded into Eurasia at the beginning of the Middle ...

  4. Largest prehistoric animals - Wikipedia

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    The elephant Palaeoloxodon namadicus has been suggested to have been the largest land mammal ever, based on a particularly large partial femur which was estimated to have belonged to an individual 22 t (24.3 short tons) in weight and about 5.2 m (17.1 ft) tall at the shoulder, though the author of the estimate said that this was speculative and ...

  5. Straight-tusked elephant - Wikipedia

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    The straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) is an extinct species of elephant that inhabited Europe and Western Asia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene.One of the largest known elephant species, mature fully grown bulls on average had a shoulder height of 4 metres (13 ft) and a weight of 13 tonnes (29,000 lb).

  6. Elephantiformes - Wikipedia

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    Elephantiformes is a suborder within the order Proboscidea. [1] Members of this group are primitively characterised by the possession of upper tusks, an elongated mandibular symphysis (the frontmost part of the lower jaw) and lower tusks, and the retraction of the facial region of the skull indicative of the development of a trunk. [2]

  7. Elephas beyeri - Wikipedia

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    During its naming, von Koenigswald proposed that these dwarfed elephants were descendants of Elephas namadicus (now generally placed in Palaeoloxodon). [4] It was thought by von Koenigswald that these animals crossed from the mainland Asia to the Philippines via land bridge connecting with Taiwan.

  8. File:Palaeoloxodon-Species-Scale-Diagram-SVG-Steveoc86.svg

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    Palaeoloxodon redrawn from skeletal diagrams from Larramendi 2016 (Appendix 1). One fragmentary individual of Palaeoloxodon namadicus, known from a partial femur (Sagauni II), possibly belongs to the largest land mammal currently known. However, the exact size estimation has some uncertainty and has not been shown here.

  9. Palaeoloxodon naumanni - Wikipedia

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    Palaeoloxodon naumanni is an extinct species of elephant belonging to the genus Palaeoloxodon that was native to the Japanese archipelago during the Middle to Late ...