Elephas iolensis

Elephas iolensis
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Elephantidae
Genus: Elephas
Species: Elephas iolensis

Elephas iolensis is an extinct species of large herbivorous mammal belonging to the Elephantidae family. The type specimen is located in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.[1] The species is thought to have lived in the African Savannah during the Late Pleistocene age, between 130,000 and 10,000 years ago.[2][3] It was a direct descendant of Elephas recki and more distantly, Elephas ekorensis.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Todd, Nancy E. (2010). "New Phylogenetic Analysis of the Family Elephantidae Based on Cranial-Dental Morphology". The Anatomical Record. 293: 74–90. doi:10.1002/ar.21010.
  2. ↑ Paul S. Martin, Richard G. Klein (1989). Quaternary Extinctions: A Prehistoric Revolution. University of Arizona Press. p. 91. ISBN 9780816511006.
  3. ↑ Whitfield, John (24 August 2001). "Genes reveal jumbo schism". Nature. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  4. ↑ Genoways, H.H. (2013). Current Mammalogy, Volume 1. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 131. ISBN 9781475799095.


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