Mammuthus africanavus (lat.) Is a species of extinct mammals from the elephant family (Elephantidae). The second oldest member of the mammoth genus. Its oldest fossils are 3 million years old (end of the Pliocene ), and the freshest are 1.65 million years old (beginning of the Pleistocene ) [1] . Its fossils were found in Chad , Libya , Morocco and Tunisia . It was relatively small and is regarded as a direct ancestor of Mammuthus meridionalis , although its tusks diverged to the sides wider than in later mammoth species, which may indicate that Mammuthus africanavus was an "evolutionary dead end" [2] .
| † Mammuthus africanavus |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetric |
| View: | † Mammuthus africanavus |
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| International scientific name |
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Mammuthus africanavus Arambourg , 1952 |
Geochronology3-1,65 million years | million years | The epoch | Pd | Era |
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th | | 2.588 | | | 5.33 | Pliocene | H
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n | | 23.03 | Miocene | | 33.9 | Oligocene | P
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n | | 55,8 | Eocene | | 65.5 | Paleocene | | 251 | Mesozoic |
◄ Nowadays◄ Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction |
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