New data on the migration of the family Elephantidae (mammalia, proboscidea) in Eurasia
| Autor: | E. N. Mashchenko, N. P. Kalmykov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Asia
Pleistocene Lineage (evolution) Elephants Zoology Biology General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Proboscidea Elephantidae Elephas Species Specificity Genus Animals media_common.cataloged_instance media_common Family elephantidae Geography General Immunology and Microbiology Fossils General Medicine biology.organism_classification Biological Evolution Primelephas Europe Animal Migration General Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Zdroj: | Doklady Biological Sciences. 406:103-105 |
| ISSN: | 1608-3105 0012-4966 |
| DOI: | 10.1134/s0012496606010303 |
| Popis: | 103 The family Elephantidae showed a high rate of evolution, early stages of which were confined to Africa, while later stages occurred in Eurasia (the genera Elephas L., 1758; Archidiskodon Nesti, 1825, and Mammuthus Burnet, 1830). The earliest members of the family (assigned to Primelephas gomphoroides Maglio, 1970) were recorded in eastern Africa at the Miocene–Pliocene boundary [1]. The earliest known Elephantidae (ca. 4.5 Ma) came from the Lower Pliocene strata of Kenya and South Africa [2], which should be dated at most 4 Ma ago [3]. Further divergence of these elephants resulted in the development of three lineages, including loxodonts ( Loxodonta Blumenbach, 1799), elephantoids ( Elephas Linnaeus, 1758), and true mammothoid elephants ( Archidiskodon–Mammuthus ). In our opinion, only Middle and Late Pleistocene representatives of mammothoid elephants should be assigned to the genus Mammuthus , while earlier members of this lineage belong to the genus Archidiskodon. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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