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Elephas celebensis

Index Elephas celebensis

Elephas celebensis or the Sulawesi dwarf elephant is an extinct species of elephant. [1]

18 relations: Dirk Albert Hooijer, Early Pleistocene, Elephant, Java, Mammoth, Miklós Kretzoi, Neoteny, Piacenzian, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Primelephas, Scripta Geologica, Species, Stegotetrabelodon, Sulawesi, Tusk, Vertebrate, Zoologische Mededelingen.

Dirk Albert Hooijer

Dirk Albert Hooijer (30 May 1919 – 26 November 1993), often only known by his author abbreviation D. A. Hooijer, was a Dutch paleontologist.

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Early Pleistocene

The Early Pleistocene (also known as the Lower Pleistocene) is a subepoch in the international geologic timescale or a subseries in chronostratigraphy, being the earliest or lowest subdivision of the Quaternary period/system and Pleistocene epoch/series.

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Elephant

Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea.

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Java

Java (Indonesian: Jawa; Javanese: ꦗꦮ; Sundanese) is an island of Indonesia.

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Mammoth

A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, proboscideans commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair.

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Miklós Kretzoi

Miklós Kretzoi (9 February 1907 – 15 March 2005) was a Hungarian geologist, paleontologist and paleoanthropologist and Széchenyi Prize winner.

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Neoteny

Neoteny, (also called juvenilization)Montagu, A. (1989).

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Piacenzian

The Piacenzian is in the international geologic time scale the upper stage or latest age of the Pliocene.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.

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Primelephas

Primelephas is a genus of Elephantinae that existed during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs.

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Scripta Geologica

Scripta Geologica is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes on vertebrate and invertebrate palaeontology, palaeobotany/palynology, stratigraphy, petrology, and mineralogy, including gemmology with a focus on systematics.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Stegotetrabelodon

Stegotetrabelodon is an extinct genus of primitive elephant with gomphothere-like anatomical features from the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene of Africa and Eurasia.

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Sulawesi

Sulawesi, formerly known as Celebes, is an island in Indonesia.

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Tusk

Tusks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth, usually but not always in pairs, that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species.

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Vertebrate

Vertebrates comprise all species of animals within the subphylum Vertebrata (chordates with backbones).

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Zoologische Mededelingen

Zoologische Mededelingen is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that publishes papers and monographs on animal systematics.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephas_celebensis

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