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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).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

M. armeniacus, M. gromovi, M. paramammonteus, M. planifrons, M. weifangensis, M. wuesti

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Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1928	Elephas exilis Stock and Furlong
1942	Archidiskodon exilis Osborn
1970	Elephas exilis Maglio
1996	Mammuthus exilis Shoshani and Tassy

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