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Mammuthus exilis (pygmy mammoth)

Taxonomy
Elephas exilis was named by Maglio (1970). It is not extant.

It was recombined as Archidiskodon exilis by Osborn (1942); it was synonymized subjectively with Mammuthus jeffersonii by Kurten and Anderson (1980); it was recombined as Mammuthus exilis by Shoshani and Tassy (1996).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1928Elephas exilis Stock and Furlong
1942Archidiskodon exilis Osborn
1970Elephas exilis Maglio
1996Mammuthus exilis Shoshani and Tassy

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