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Post by Melanie on Nov 28, 2005 2:12:50 GMT
The first Naumann Elephant fossil ever discovered in Japan was found in Sahama-Cho. It was named after Professor Naumann, the former teacher of the paleontologist who discovered it. The Naumann Elephant had lived 200,000 years ago.
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Post by Bucardo on Nov 28, 2005 21:01:29 GMT
A japanese descendant of Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PalaeoloxodonPalaeoloxodon is an extinct subgenus of straight-tusked elephant. Its remains have been found in Bilzingsleben, Germany; Cyprus; Japan; Sicily; Malta; and recently in England during the excavation of the second Channel Tunnel. Palaeoloxodon belongs to the genus Elephas and so is more closely related to the Asian Elephant than the Asian is to the two species of African elephants in genus Loxodonta. Palaeoloxodon is known informally as the "straight-tusked elephant" because of the straighted tusks of Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus. The last mainland European Palaeoloxodon faced extinction 30,000 years ago. The Japanese species survived possibly a little longer afterwards. The last straight-tusked elephants were the Mediterranean dwarf species, which died out 8,000 years ago - possibly at the hands of human hunters and introduced predators. Some notable species are: Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus found in England and Germany and was twice the size of a modern African elephant E. (P.) cypriotes (Cyprus) dwarf elephant. E. (P.) falconeri (Sicily and Malta) dwarf elephant. E. (P.) naumanni (Southern Japan) dwarf elephant |
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Post by Bucardo on Nov 28, 2005 21:07:12 GMT
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Post by Bowhead Whale on Dec 21, 2005 21:28:18 GMT
It looks like a mammoth with straight tusks...
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Post by Miracinonyx on Dec 22, 2005 8:34:04 GMT
How long did the Paleolxodon leanage exist in Europe? What is considered to be main reason for final extinction of the animal? - Glaciation peak? Or substitution of the Neanderthals (which the elephant coevolved with) by H.sapiens and their new deadly hunting tactics?
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Post by Bucardo on Dec 26, 2005 13:52:27 GMT
How long did the Paleolxodon leanage exist in Europe? What is considered to be main reason for final extinction of the animal? - Glaciation peak? Or substitution of the Neanderthals (which the elephant coevolved with) by H.sapiens and their new deadly hunting tactics? Latest remains of Elephas antiquus are from the Iberian Peninsula. The species became extinct 30000 years ago, when a glacial maximum reached the Peninsula. Related species survived in Mediterranean islands. |
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Post by Peter on Dec 29, 2005 10:23:29 GMT
It looks like a mammoth with straight tusks... True, its ancestor Elephas antiquus is sometimes names Straight-tusked Elephant. |
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Post by Peter on Dec 29, 2005 10:24:49 GMT
How long did the Paleolxodon leanage exist in Europe? What is considered to be main reason for final extinction of the animal? - Glaciation peak? Or substitution of the Neanderthals (which the elephant coevolved with) by H.sapiens and their new deadly hunting tactics? Latest remains of Elephas antiquus are from the Iberian Peninsula. The species became extinct 30000 years ago, when a glacial maximum reached the Peninsula. Related species survived in Mediterranean islands. Yes, related dwarfed species survived on some Mediterranean islands. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_elephant. |
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Post by RSN on Jan 7, 2006 21:47:17 GMT
Pictures:  Naumann Elephant  Palaeoloxodon antiquus |
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Post by temujin on Nov 16, 2009 3:49:18 GMT
I buyed some days ago a book about the history of Japan and in the part about pre-historic Japan and the coming of humans to the land of the Rising Sun,they mentioned about the Naumann elephant,wich lived in Japan in the islands south of Hokkaido.In Hokkaido and Sakhalin/Karafuro they were replaced by the woolly mammoth.The Naumann elephant entered in Japan(wich in that time were connected by land to the continent) via Korea,while the mammoths via Sakhalin Island.
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Post by koeiyabe on Dec 13, 2015 0:22:47 GMT
 "The Earth Extinct Fauna (in Japanese)" by Tadaaki Imaizumi (1986) |
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Post by surroundx on Oct 2, 2016 6:37:01 GMT
Takahashi, K., Chang, C. H. and Cheng, Y. N. (2001). Proboscidean fossils from the Japanese Archipelago and Taiwan Islands and their relationship with the Chinese mainland, pp. 148-151. In: Cavarretta, C., Gioia, P., Mussi, M. and Palombo, M. R. (eds.). The World of Elephants – International Congress, Rome. Proceedings of the 1st international congress – Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, Rome. [automatic download] |
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Post by surroundx on Oct 6, 2016 9:59:15 GMT
Kondo, Y., Mazima, N. and Nojiri-ko Research Group. (2001). Palaeoloxodon naumanni and its environment at the paleolithic site of Lake Nojiri, Nagano Prefecture, Central Japan, pp. 284-288. In: Cavarretta, C., Gioia, P., Mussi, M. and Palombo, M. R. (eds.). The World of Elephants – International Congress, Rome. Proceedings of the 1st international congress – Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, Rome. [automatic download] |
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Post by surroundx on Oct 16, 2016 5:46:30 GMT
Ono, A. (2001). Proboscidean bone modification in the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic of the Japanese Islands, pp. 469. In: Cavarretta, C., Gioia, P., Mussi, M. and Palombo, M. R. (eds.). The World of Elephants – International Congress, Rome. Proceedings of the 1st international congress – Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, Rome. [automatic download] |
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