Palaeoloxodon namadicus
Palaeoloxodon namadicus or the Asian straight-tusked elephant, was a species of prehistoric elephant. It ranged throughout Pleistocene Continental Southern Asia.
Palaeoloxodon namadicus is thought to have become extinct during the Late Pleistocene, making it one of four megafaunal species native to India known to have become extinct during the Late Pleistocene, alongside fellow proboscidean Stegodon namadicus, the equine Equus namadicus, and a species of hippopotamus belonging to the genus Hexaprotodon.[1][2] A late record of approximately 56,000 years Before Present is known from the banks of the Dhasan River on the Ganga plain in Uttar Pradesh.[3] In 2015, a study based on extensive research of fragmentary leg bone fossils suggested that P. namadicus may have been the largest land mammal ever,[4] but this requires reexamination.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ Jukar, A.M.; Lyons, S.K.; Wagner, P.J.; Uhen, M.D. (January 2021). "Late Quaternary extinctions in the Indian Subcontinent". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 562: 110137. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110137.
- ↑ Turvey, Samuel T.; Sathe, Vijay; Crees, Jennifer J.; Jukar, Advait M.; Chakraborty, Prateek; Lister, Adrian M. (January 2021). "Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions in India: How much do we know?". Quaternary Science Reviews. 252: 106740. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106740.
- ↑ Ghosh, Rupa; Sehgal, R. K.; Srivastava, Pradeep; Shukla, U. K.; Nanda, A. C.; Singh, D. S. (November 2016). "Discovery of Elephas cf. namadicus from the late Pleistocene strata of Marginal Ganga Plain". Journal of the Geological Society of India. 88 (5): 559–568. doi:10.1007/s12594-016-0521-7. ISSN 0016-7622.
- ↑ "An Ancient Elephant May Have Been Biggest Land Mammal Ever". 2015-07-17. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
- ↑ Larramendi, Asier (2015). "Proboscideans: Shoulder Height, Body Mass and Shape". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. doi:10.4202/app.00136.2014.
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