Loxodonta exoptata is an extinct species of elephant in the genus Loxodonta, from Africa. A 2009 study suggested that Loxodonta exoptata gave rise to L. atlantica, which gave rise to L. africana.[1] The molars of L. exoptata are distinguished from later loxodonts by the lower plate number and their specialized enamel loops.[2] Fossil remains of L. exoptata have been found at Pliocene sites in eastern Africa including Hadar, Laetoli and Koobi Fora.[2]
^The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology Volume 293, Issue 1, Article first published online: 20 November 2009: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.21010/pdf, retrieved 2 December 2011.
^ abJon E. Kalb, Assefa Mebrate (1993). Fossil elephantoids from the hominid-bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash Valley, Afar Depression, Ethiopia.
Loxodontaexoptata is an extinct species of elephant in the genus Loxodonta, from Africa. A 2009 study suggested that Loxodontaexoptata gave rise to L...
adaurora a valid species of Loxodonta, with some considering it an early morph of Loxodontaexoptata. "The genus Loxodonta, member of the family of elephants"...
Ternifine, Algeria. † Loxodontaexoptata proposed by Wilhelm Otto Dietrich in 1941 was based on teeth found in Laetoli, Tanzania. † Loxodonta adaurora proposed...
Loxodonta atlantica is an extinct African species of elephant in the genus Loxodonta (which includes living African elephants). It was larger than modern...
including several antelopes, of which some were endemic, the elephant Loxodontaexoptata, the white rhinoceros Ceratotherium praecox, the pig Kolpochoerus...
Species Locality Material Notes Images Loxodonta L. adaurora Member O Extinct subspecies of African elephants. L. exoptata Member O Palaeoloxodon recki P. r...
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