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====Cyclades==== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Island !! Taxon !! Author |- | style="background: lightgreen" | [[Delos]] || ''Palaeoloxodon'' sp. || {{Smallcaps|Vaufrey}}, 1929 |- | style="background: lightgreen" | [[Naxos]] || ''[[Palaeoloxodon lomolinoi]]'' || {{Smallcaps|Van der Geer}} et al., 2014<ref name="VanderGeer2014">{{cite journal | doi = 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.04.003| title = A dwarf elephant and a rock mouse on Naxos (Cyclades, Greece) with a revision of the palaeozoogeography of the Cycladic Islands (Greece) during the Pleistocene| journal = Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology| volume = 404| pages = 133–144 | year = 2014| last1 = Van der Geer | first1 = A. A. E.| last2 = Lyras | first2 = G. A.| last3 = Van den Hoek Ostende | first3 = L. W.| last4 = De Vos | first4 = J.| last5 = Drinia | first5 = H.| hdl = 10795/3263| url = http://repository.edulll.gr/3263| hdl-access = free}}</ref> |- | style="background: lightgreen" | [[Paros]] || Elephantidae indet. || {{Smallcaps|Georgalas}}, 1929 |- | [[Kythnos]] || Elephantidae indet. || {{Smallcaps|Honea}}, 1975 |- | [[Milos]] || Elephantidae indet. || {{Smallcaps|Papp}}, 1953 |- | [[Serifos]] || Elephantidae indet. || {{Smallcaps|Papp}}, 1953 |} {{legend|lightgreen|connected during LGM<ref name="VanderGeer2014"/>}} Remains of dwarf elephants have been briefly reported from [[Paros]], [[Milos]] and [[Serifos]] in historical publications, but these lack any detailed information.<ref name=":0" /> On [[Kythnos|Kýthnos]], the remains of a dwarf elephant were reported in a 1975 publication to be found associated with lithic artefacts. The age of the find was considered to be uncertain, likely older than 9,000 years, but could not be dated precisely due to a lack of collagen. Additionally, an isolated tusk was reported from the northwest of the island.<ref name=":0" /> On [[Delos]], an indeterminate dwarf elephant known from a third molar was reported in 1908. This specimen clearly belongs to a dwarf species, but it is difficult to quantify its size precisely.<ref name=":0" /> On [[Naxos]] the species ''Palaeoloxodon lomolinoi'' has been described based on a partial skull including the maxilla bones and third molar teeth found near the Trypiti river, of probable Late Pleistocene age.''<ref name="VanderGeer2014" />'' It is estimated to be around 8% the size of ''P. antiquus'', and had a smaller body size than that represented by the dwarf elephant from Delos. The Eastern Cyclades islands of Delos, [[Naxos]], and Paros were connected during the [[Last Glacial Period]], which suggests that the Delos species and ''P. lomolinoi'' were not contemporaneous, with the former possibly being the ancestor of the latter, though nothing can be said for certain.<ref name=":0" />
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