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Palaeoloxodon naumanni

Index Palaeoloxodon naumanni

Palaeoloxodon naumanni, occasionally called Naumann's elephant, is an extinct species belonging to the genus Palaeoloxodon that lived in Southern Japan in the late Pleistocene about 500,000 to 15,000 years ago. [1]

14 relations: Asian elephant, Deciduous, Eurasia, Hamamatsu, Heinrich Edmund Naumann, Japan, Kanagawa Prefecture, Lake Nojiri, Nagano Prefecture, Palaeoloxodon, Pinophyta, Pleistocene, Seto Inland Sea, Yokosuka, Kanagawa.

Asian elephant

The Asian elephant, or Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus), is the only living species of the genus Elephas and is distributed in Southeast Asia, from India and Nepal in the west to Borneo in the south.

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Deciduous

In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/dɪˈsɪdʒuəs/) means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

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Eurasia

Eurasia is a combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia.

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Hamamatsu

is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Heinrich Edmund Naumann

Heinrich Edmund Naumann (September 11, 1854 – February 1, 1927) was a German geologist, regarded as the "father of Japanese geology" in Meiji period Japan.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Kanagawa Prefecture

is a prefecture located in Kantō region of Japan.

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Lake Nojiri

is in the town of Shinano, Kamiminochi District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

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Nagano Prefecture

is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on the island of Honshu.

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Palaeoloxodon

Palaeoloxodon is an extinct genus that contains the various species of straight-tusked elephant.

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Pinophyta

The Pinophyta, also known as Coniferophyta or Coniferae, or commonly as conifers, are a division of vascular land plants containing a single extant class, Pinopsida.

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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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Seto Inland Sea

The, also known as Setouchi or often shortened to Inland Sea, is the body of water separating Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū, three of the four main islands of Japan.

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Yokosuka, Kanagawa

is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Redirects here:

Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) naumanni, Elephas naumanni, Naumann Elephant, Naumann elephant, P. naumanni.

References

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

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