Editing Dwarf elephant (section)

====Crete====
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! Island !! Taxon !! Author
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| rowspan="2" | [[Crete]] || ''[[Mammuthus creticus]]'' || ({{Smallcaps|Bate}}, 1907)
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| ''[[Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi]]'' || ({{Smallcaps|Kuss}}, 1965)
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''[[Mammuthus creticus]]'' is known from remains probably dating to the [[Early Pleistocene]]. It likely descends from ''[[Mammuthus meridionalis]]''. It is the smallest mammoth<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Herridge |first1=V. L. |last2=Lister |first2=A. M. |year=2012 |title=Extreme insular dwarfism evolved in a mammoth |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=279 |issue=1741 |pages=3193–3300 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2012.0671 |pmc=3385739 |pmid=22572206}}</ref> and is among the smallest dwarf elephants known, with a shoulder height of about {{Convert|1|m|ft}} and a weight of about {{Convert|180|kg|lb}}.<ref name="proboscideans" /> ''[[Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi]]'' from the Middle Pleistocene and Late Pleistocene is significantly larger, with an estimated body mass comparable to living Asian elephant, around 40% the size of its mainland ancestor.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Athanassiou |first1=Athanassios |last2=van der Geer |first2=Alexandra A.E. |last3=Lyras |first3=George A. |date=August 2019 |title=Pleistocene insular Proboscidea of the Eastern Mediterranean: A review and update |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0277379119300848 |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |language=en |volume=218 |pages=306–321 |bibcode=2019QSRv..218..306A |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.028 |s2cid=199107354|url-access=subscription }}</ref><!-- http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/05/04/rspb.2012.0671 -->