Loxodonta adaurora
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''Loxodonta adaurora'' is an extinct species of
elephant Elephants are the largest existing land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae ...
in the genus '' Loxodonta'', that of the African elephants.
Fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...
s of ''Loxodonta adaurora'' have only been found in
Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
, where they developed in the
Pliocene The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58L. africana ''evolved from '' L. atlantica''.The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology Volume 293, Issue 1, Article first published online: 20 NOV 2009: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.21010/pdf, retrieved 2 December 2011. The same study concluded that ''Loxodonta adaurora'' was morphologically indistinguishable from '' Mammuthus subplanifrons'' and that these constituted the same species.


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Prehistoric elephants Pliocene proboscideans Pleistocene species extinctions Pliocene mammals of Africa Fossil taxa described in 1970 {{paleo-proboscidean-stub