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Palaeoloxodon naumanni, Naumann's elephant

Palaeoloxodon naumanni (Makiyama, 1924)

Invalid synonym: Elephas naumanni, Palaeoloxodon namadicus aomoriensis, Palaeoloxodon namadicus yabei, Palaeoloxodon namadicus naumanni

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

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

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