Loxodonta cookei is an extinct species of African elephant. Its specific epithet honours H. Basil S. Cooke, a paleontologist who specialised in extinct African mammals. Its fossils have been found in Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa, and most of the fossils from this species are teeth. Its dentition is noticeably more hypsodont, with higher crowned teeth, than that of earlier elephantids, which likely reflects a greater prevalence of abrasive dust in the environment compared with earlier African palaeoenvironments. It has been argued that the type tooth of Mammuthus subplanifrons is really a tooth of Loxodonta, likely Loxodonta cookei.
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Its fossils have been found in Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Loxodonta cookei (Wikipedia)DistributionQuote, Distribution
Its fossils have been found in Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Loxodonta cookei (Wikipedia)DistributionQuote, Distribution
Its fossils have been found in Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa
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1. Elephantidae - Wikipedia
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Elephantidae is a family of large, herbivorous proboscidean mammals which includes the living elephants
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They are large terrestrial mammals with a snout modified into a trunk and teeth modified into tusks.
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Loxodonta cookei is an extinct species of African elephant
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Its fossils have been found in Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa
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