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Protelephas ✝
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Rank | genus (PBDB) | ||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Protelephas | ||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 | ||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 5.33 - 2.59 Ma Cenozoic | ||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 2.59 - 0.01 Ma Pleistocene | ||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | V.E. Garutt. 1957. Novye dannye o drevneishikh slonakh; rod Protelephas gen. nov. Title translated: New data on the earliest elephants; the genus Protelephas gen. nov. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow 114(1):189-191 |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!