Elephas cypriotes Bate, 1903
Cyprus dwarf elephant
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Palaeoloxodon cypriotes Bate, 1903
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: c. 9,000 BC
Distribution
Cyprus
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bate, Dorothy M. A. (1903). Preliminary note on the discovery of a pygmy elephant in the Pleistocene of Cyprus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 71: 498-500.
Other references:
Alcover, Josep Antoni et al. (1998). Mammal Species of the World: Additional Data on Insular Mammals. American Museum Novitates 3248, 29 pp., 1 table.
Athanassiou, Athanassios, van der Geer, Alexandra and Lyras, George A. (2019). Pleistocene insular Proboscidea of the Eastern Mediterranean: A review and update. Quaternary Science Reviews 218: 306-321. [Abstract]
Bate, Dorothy M. A. (1903). Preliminary note on the discovery of a pygmy elephant in the Pleistocene of Cyprus. Proc. Roy. Soc. 73: 498-500.
Bate, Dorothy M. A. (1904a). Further note on the remains of Elephas Cypriotes Bate. Geol. Magazine, Dec. V, 1: 325-326.
Bate, Dorothy M. A. (1904b). Further note on the remains of Elephas Cypriotes Bate from a cave-deposit in Cyprus. Proc. Roy. Soc.: 120-121.
Bate, Dorothy M. A. (1905). Further note on the remains of Elephas cypriotes from a cave-deposit in Cyprus, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 197: 347-360. [Abstract]
Boekschoten, G. J. and Sondaar, P. Y. (1972). On the fossil Mammalia of Cyprus, Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 75(4): 306-338.
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