Elephas hysudricus Falconer & Cautley, 1845
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: pre-Late Pleistocene?
Distribution
India and the Levant
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Falconer, Hugh and Cautley, P. T. (1845-1849). Fauna antiqua sivalensis, being the fossil zoology of the Sewalik Hills, in the north of India. – 1845: Part I., 1846: Part II., 1847: Part III-VIII., 1849: Part IX., Smith Elder and Co., London.
Other references:
Abbas, Sayyed Ghyour et al. (2019). New remains of Elephantidae from the Upper Siwalik subgroup (Plio-Pleistocene) of Pakistan. Quaternary Science Reviews 224: 105967. [Abstract]
Joshi, R. V. et al. (1978). Fresh data on the Quaternary animal fossils and Stone Age cultures from the Central Narmada Valley, India. Asian Perspectives 21(2): 164-181.
Lemoine, Rhys Taylor, Buitenwerf, Robert, Faurby, Sören and Svenning, Jens-Christian. (2025). Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(7): e70078. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70078 [Supporting Information: Data S1]
Lister, Adrian M. et al. (2013). New fossil remains of Elephas from the southern Levant: Implications for the evolutionary history of the Asian elephant. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 386: 119-130.
Patnaik, Rajeev et al. (2019). Dietary and habitat shifts in relation to climate of Neogene-Quaternary proboscideans and associated mammals of the Indian subcontinent. Quaternary Science Reviews 224: 105968. [Abstract]
Supekar, S. G. (1985). Some observations on the Quaternary stratigraphy of the Central Narmada Valley, pp. 19-27. In: Misra, V. N. and Bellwood, P. (eds.). Recent Advances in Indo-Pacific Prehistory. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.