Shoulder height, body mass and shape of proboscideans

Larramendi, A. (2016). Shoulder height, body mass and shape of proboscideans.

Type

Unclassified

Intellectual base

Unclassified

Year

2016

DOI

10.4202/app.00136.2014

Link

https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00136.2014

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Island Rule
  • Straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon) colonizing Sicily, Malta, and Cyprus dwarfed dramatically: the continental P. antiquus stood roughly 4 meters at the shoulder, while the Sicilian/Maltese dwarf P. falconeri stood on the order of 1 meter and weighed a small fraction of its ancestor

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