Grotte Santo Stefano elephant
Straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) at
Grotte Santo Stefano in Italy

Biography
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Grotte Santo Stefano elephant displayed as museum specimen.
Grotte Santo Stefano elephant as museum specimen. Straight-tusked elephant. Skeleton of an Elephas antiquus in the Museo paleontologico of the university Sapienzia, Rome
Taxidermy locationSapienza Museum of Paleontology, Roma, Italy

Identification


Description

Species:Straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus)
Sex and age:, unknown age
Status:fossil
Characteristics: nearly complete skeleton
Origin
Born:* wild
Birth place: in Europe unspecified location
Death
Dead:
Death location: Grotte Santo Stefano near the village of Grotte Santo Stefano, Italy
Death reason: unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Grotte Santo Stefano, in Italy

Date of arrival

Grotte Santo Stefano
Record history
History of updates2021-06-28

Latest document update2021-09-26 18:05:43
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† Grotte Santo Stefano elephant is a dead fossil Straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), , who died at Grotte Santo Stefano, in Italy, .

Museum locationThe Museum specimen remains of this animal is within the collection at Sapienza Museum of Paleontology, in Roma, Italy.


Origin

Grotte Santo Stefano elephant was born wild at Europe unspecified location.


Comments / pictures

The Skeleton was found in the early 1950s in late Middle Pleistocene diatomaceous layers outcropping near the village of Grotte Santo Stefano

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Grotte Santo Stefano elephant, Straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) located at Sapienza Museum of Paleontology in Italy. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=10780. (archived at the Wayback machine)


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