Pleistocene dwarf elephants of the California Islands

Abstract Mammoths of the Santa Barbara, California, Channel Islands are the only proboscideans documented from islands in the New World. Like proboscidean fossils from islands elsewhere, they tend to be dwarfed by comparison with their mainland ancestors, typically attaining as adults 120–180 cm in...

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Main Author: Roth, V Louise
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Published: Oxford University PressOxford 1996
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North Atlantic
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spelling croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780198546528.003.0025 2024-04-28T08:30:12+00:00 Pleistocene dwarf elephants of the California Islands Roth, V Louise 1996 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198546528.003.0025 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52373685/isbn-9780198546528-book-part-25.pdf unknown Oxford University PressOxford The Proboscidea page 249-253 ISBN 9780198546528 9781383027440 book-chapter 1996 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198546528.003.0025 2024-04-09T07:55:42Z Abstract Mammoths of the Santa Barbara, California, Channel Islands are the only proboscideans documented from islands in the New World. Like proboscidean fossils from islands elsewhere, they tend to be dwarfed by comparison with their mainland ancestors, typically attaining as adults 120–180 cm in shoulder height, with a few extreme individuals broadening the range to 105–243 cm (Roth 1982), when their closest relatives on the mainland could reach 400 cm (Orr 1968). (See also Oldale et al. 1987, and Whitmore et al. 1967, on relatively small mammoths from the North Atlantic Continental Shelf.) Book Part North Atlantic Oxford University Press 249 253
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description Abstract Mammoths of the Santa Barbara, California, Channel Islands are the only proboscideans documented from islands in the New World. Like proboscidean fossils from islands elsewhere, they tend to be dwarfed by comparison with their mainland ancestors, typically attaining as adults 120–180 cm in shoulder height, with a few extreme individuals broadening the range to 105–243 cm (Roth 1982), when their closest relatives on the mainland could reach 400 cm (Orr 1968). (See also Oldale et al. 1987, and Whitmore et al. 1967, on relatively small mammoths from the North Atlantic Continental Shelf.)
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Pleistocene dwarf elephants of the California Islands
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title Pleistocene dwarf elephants of the California Islands
title_short Pleistocene dwarf elephants of the California Islands
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