Editing Dwarf elephant (section)

===Cyprus===
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| rowspan="2"| [[Cyprus]] || ''[[Cyprus dwarf elephant|Palaeoloxodon cypriotes]]'' || ({{Smallcaps|Bate}}, 1903)<ref name="Bate1903">Bate, D. M. A.: ''Preliminary Note on the Discovery of a Pigmy Elephant in the Pleistocene of Cyprus'' in ''Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'' Vol. 71 (1902 - 1903), pp. 498-500</ref>
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| ''[[Palaeoloxodon xylophagou]]'' || {{Smallcaps|Athanassiou}} et al., 2015<ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.05.065| title = Cranial evidence for the presence of a second endemic elephant species on Cyprus| journal = Quaternary International| volume = 379| pages = 47–57 | year = 2015| last1 = Athanassiou | first1 = A.| last2 = Herridge | first2 = V.| last3 = Reese | first3 = D. S.| last4 = Iliopoulos | first4 = G.| last5 = Roussiakis | first5 = S.| last6 = Mitsopoulou | first6 = V.| last7 = Tsiolakis | first7 = E.| last8 = Theodorou | first8 = G.}}</ref>
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The [[Cyprus dwarf elephant]] (''Palaeoloxodon cypriotes'') survived at least until 12,000 years ago, around the time of arrival of modern humans to Cyprus (who may have hunted it), making it one of the latest surviving dwarf elephants. It is also one of the smallest dwarf elephant species, comparable in size to ''P. falconeri'', with an estimated shoulder height of {{Convert|1|m|ft}}. The species likely evolved from the earlier larger (though still strongly dwarfed) ''Palaeoloxodon xylophagou'' known from fossils dating to around 200,000 years ago.<ref name=":13">{{Cite journal |last1=Athanassiou |first1=Athanassios |last2=Herridge |first2=Victoria |last3=Reese |first3=David S. |last4=Iliopoulos |first4=George |last5=Roussiakis |first5=Socrates |last6=Mitsopoulou |first6=Vassiliki |last7=Tsiolakis |first7=Efthymios |last8=Theodorou |first8=George |date=August 2015 |title=Cranial evidence for the presence of a second endemic elephant species on Cyprus |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040618215005856 |journal=Quaternary International |language=en |volume=379 |pages=47–57 |bibcode=2015QuInt.379...47A |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2015.05.065|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Remains of the species were first discovered and recorded by [[Dorothea Bate]] in a cave in the [[Kyrenia]] hills of northern [[Cyprus]] in 1902 and reported in 1903.<ref name="Bate1903"/><ref>Dorothea Bate, ''Cyprus work diary 1901–02'', 3 volumes, Natural History Museum's earth sciences library, palaeontology MSS</ref>