Palaeoloxodon sp. nov. 'Favignana Island'

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 20,350–19,840 cal. yBP

Distribution

Favignana Island, Aegadian Archipelago, western Sicily

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Palombo, Maria Rita, Antonioli, Fabrizio, Di Patti, Carolina, Valeria, Lo Presti and Scarborough, Matthew E. (2020). Was the dwarfed Palaeoloxodon from Favignana Island the last endemic Pleistocene elephant from the western Mediterranean islands? Historical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1772251 [Abstract]

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/25623/palaeoloxodon-sp-nov-favignana-island

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