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Palaeoloxodon sp.

genus Palaeoloxodon Matsumoto, 1924

• Extinct species: Late Pleistocene - Present (0.13 - 0.0 Ma)

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Proboscidea, family Elephantidae

• Distribution
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Kagawa
• Quaternary: Gunma, Okayama
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Akita, Yamagata, Fukushima, Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi, Toyama, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Gifu, Hyogo, Yamaguchi, Oita
• Holocene: Fukuoka
• Investigation in progress: Shiga

• Subtaxa
• P. naumanni, Naumann's elephant