straight-tusked elephant
palaeoloxodon antiquus latin

Straight-tusked elephants lived in small herds of about five to 15 individuals.

On the European mainland, many remains of the straight-tusked elephant have been found.

Other descendants of the straight-tusked elephant existed in Cyprus.

It is a descendant of the Straight-tusked elephant.

The last straight-tusked elephants were the Dwarf elephant, which died out 8,000 years ago - possibly at the hands of human hunters and introduced predators.

The molars are less reduced in scale, being some 40% of the size of the mainland straight-tusked elephants.

Molars of this dwarf are reduced to approximately 40% the size of mainland straight-tusked elephants.

Palaeoloxodon is an extinct genus of elephants, containing the various species of straight-tusked elephant.

Examples of species on display are the woolly rhinoceros, the cave bear, the straight-tusked elephant and the aurochs.

With this tongue and a flexible trunk, straight-tusked elephants could graze or browse on Pleistocene foliage about 8 m above ground.

Straight-tusked Elephant (mentioned)

Palaeoloxodon is known informally as the "straight-tusked elephant" because of the straight tusks of Palaeoloxodon antiquus.

Elephants presumably derived from the straight-tusked elephant are described from many Mediterranean islands, where they evolved into dwarfed elephants.

Straight-tusked Elephant (Elephas antiquus)

The more tropical fauna of the lower levels below the Grimaldi man skeletons had rhinoceros, hippopotamu and Straight-tusked Elephant.

Circa 9550 BCE - The southern European Straight-tusked Elephant became extinct.

This elephant is a separate species with respect to the European mainland straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) and not just a smaller insular form.

The straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) is an extinct species of elephant closely related to the living Asian elephant.

Some authorities regard it to be a subspecies of Palaeoloxodon antiquus, the Straight-tusked elephant, due to extreme similarities of the tusks.

Quarrying here has revealed signs of extensive occupation some 100,000 years ago: flint knapping was carried out here, the remains of a straight-tusked elephant have been found.

A skeleton of a Straight-tusked Elephant was excavated in 1911, during the construction of the Royal Engineers' Upnor Hard.

Archaeological excavations in advance of High Speed 1 revealed the 400,000-year-old skeleton of a straight-tusked elephant in the Ebbsfleet Valley, near Swanscombe.

Mediterranean dwarf elephants have generally been considered as members of the genus paleoloxodontine, derived from the continental straight-tusked elephant, Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus Falconer & Cautley, 1847.

Believed to be descended from the straight-tusked elephant, this much smaller species inhabited Cyprus and some other Mediterranean islands after the Messinian salinity crisis, during the Late Pleistocene.

The wooden stabbing lance from Lehringen, also from Lower Saxony, was found underneath the skeleton of a Straight-tusked Elephant and is aged approximately 125,000 years, so it is much younger.

The remains of a large elephant skeleton (palaeoloxodon antiquus) were excavated in 1911 at Upnor.

The remains had originally been designated to Palaeoloxodon antiquus falconeri (Busk, 1867).

Palaeoloxodon is known informally as the "straight-tusked elephant" because of the straight tusks of Palaeoloxodon antiquus.

Others suggest the term may spring from group die-offs, such as one excavated in Saxony-Anhalt, which had 27 Palaeoloxodon antiquus skeletons.

This elephant is a separate species with respect to the European mainland straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) and not just a smaller insular form.

The straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) is an extinct species of elephant closely related to the living Asian elephant.

The Swanscombe example was discovered in 2004 by Palaeolithic archaeologist Francis Wenban-Smith and was identified by the Natural History Museum as the straight-tusked Palaeoloxodon antiquus, which became extinct over 100,000 years ago.

Nearby digs on land for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link revealed a c. 400,000-year-old site with human tools and the remains of a Straight-tusked Elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), and evidence of water vole, pine vole, newts, frogs etc., indicating a site with standing water.