Elephas falconeri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElephasPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Elephantidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Elephantidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Elephas falconeri on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Elephas falconeri and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Elephas falconeri and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Equus2 sites
- Hippopotamus2 sites
- Lacerta2 sites
- Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis2 sites
- Anas1 site
- Arvicola1 site
- Aves1 site
- Batrachia1 site
- Bison priscus1 site
- Bos primigenius1 site
- Branta bernicla1 site
- Bufo bufo1 site
- Bufo viridis1 site
- Bulimus1 site
- Canis1 site
- Canis lupus1 site
- Cervus elaphus1 site
- Clausilia1 site
- Colubrinae1 site
- Crocidura1 site
- Crocuta crocuta1 site
- Cyclostoma sp.1 site
- Cygnus cygnus1 site
- Cygnus falconeri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Elephas falconeri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- The Island Rule in Large Mammals: Paleontology Meets Ecology1
- Nesolutra trinacriae n. sp., lontra quaternaria della Sicilia1
- On gigantic land-tortoises and a small freshwater species from the ossiferous caverns of Malta, together with a list of their fossil fauna; and a note on chelonian remains from the rock-cavities of Gibraltar1
Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Elephas falconeri
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Elephas falconeri was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itElephas through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Busk 1867