Elephas platycephalus is an extinct species of large herbivorous mammals that were closely related to Asian elephants. It lived between 130,000 and 700,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene, and its fossils have been found in the upper Sivalik Hills. The researcher Vincent Maglio suspected that Mammuthus meridionalis, also known under the synonym Elephas planifrons, was a direct ancestor of E. platycephalus because the two species appear quite similar. However, a close study of the fronto-parietal region of the skull and of the upper molars of specimens of both species concluded that the two differ radically.
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Fossils have been found in the upper Sivalik Hills.
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Elephas platycephalus is an extinct species of large herbivorous mammals that were closely related to Asian elephants
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Elephas platycephalus is an extinct species of large herbivorous mammals
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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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