Biology:Straight-tusked elephant

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Short description: Extinct species of elephant

Straight-tusked elephant
Temporal range: Mid-Late Pleistocene
~0.78–0.03 Ma
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Elephas antiquus Rom (cropped).JPG
Skeleton in Rome
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Skull in Germany
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Elephantidae
Genus: †Palaeoloxodon
Species:
†P. antiquus
Binomial name
†Palaeoloxodon antiquus
(Falconer & Cautley, 1847)
Palaeoloxodon antiquus map.png
Approximate range of P. antiquus
Synonyms

Elephas antiquus (Falconer & Cautley, 1847)
Loxodonta antiquus[1]

The straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) is an extinct species of elephant that inhabited Europe and Western Asia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene (781,000–30,000 years Before Present). Recovered individuals have reached up to 3.81–4.2 metres (12.5–13.8 ft) in shoulder height, and an estimated 11.3–15 tonnes (11.1–14.8 long tons; 12.5–16.5 short tons) in weight. Like modern elephants, the straight-tusked elephant lived in herds, flourishing during interglacial periods, when its range would extend as far north as Great Britain. Skeletons found in association with stone tools and wooden spears suggest they were scavenged and hunted by early humans, including Neanderthals. It is the ancestral species of most dwarf elephants that inhabited islands in the Mediterranean.

Description

Size of a 40 year old adult male compared to a human
Model

Like many other members of the genus Palaeoloxodon, P. antiquus possesses a well developed parieto-occipital crest at the top of the cranium that anchored the splenius as well as possibly the rhomboid muscles to support the large head, the largest proportionally and in absolute size among proboscideans. Two morphs of P. antiquus were previously suggested to exist in Europe on the basis of parieto-occipital crest variation, one more similar to P. namadicus, but these were shown to be the result of ontogenetic variation and taphonomic distortion. P. antiquus can be distinguished from the Indian P. namadicus based on its less stout cranium and more robust limb bones.[2] The premaxillary bones (which contain the tusks) are fan-shaped and very broad in front-view. The tusks are very long relative to body size and vary from straight to slightly curved. The forelimbs of P. antiquus, particuarly the humerus and scapular, are proportionally longer than those of African bush elephants. The head represents the highest point of the animal, with the back being sloped, with most of the spines of the back vertebrae being long. The body (including the pelvis) was broad relative to extant elephants. The tail was relatively long. Although not preserved, the body was probably only sparsely covered in hair, similar to extant elephants, and probably had large ears.[3]

As with modern elephants, the species was sexually dimorphic, with males being substantially larger than females.[3] P. antiquus was on average considerably larger than any living elephant. In a 2015 study, one approximately 40-year-old male specimen of P. antiquus from Viterbo in Italy was estimated at about 3.81 metres (12.5 ft) tall at the shoulders and estimated to weigh about 11.3 tonnes (11.1 long tons; 12.5 short tons), while a fragmentary specimen including the humerus from Montreuil, France, was estimated to weigh about 15 tonnes (14.8 long tons; 16.5 short tons) and be 4.2 metres (13.8 ft) tall at the shoulder. The average male has been estimated to have had a shoulder height of 4 m (13.1 ft) and a weight of 13 tonnes (12.8 long tons; 14.3 short tons).[4] Adult males had tusks typically in the size range of 3.5–4 metres (11–13 ft), with masses comfortably exceeding 100 kilograms (220 lb), with the preserved portion of one particularly large tusk from Aniene, Italy measured to be 3.9 metres (13 ft) in length, having an estimated mass of over 190 kilograms (420 lb).[5] Females probably only reached a shoulder height of about 3 metres and weight of 5.5 tonnes (5.4 long tons; 6.1 short tons).[3] A largely complete 5 year old calf from Cova del Rinoceront in Spain was estimated to have a shoulder height of 178–187 centimetres (5.8–6.1 ft) and a body mass of 1.45–1.5 tonnes (1.43–1.48 long tons; 1.60–1.65 short tons), which is comparable to a similarly aged African bush elephant.[6]

Taxonomy

The species was first named in 1847 by Hugh Falconer and Proby Cautley for remains found in East Sussex as Elephas antiquus.[7] The genus Palaeoloxodon was first named in 1924 by Matsumoto Hikoshichirō as a subgenus of Loxodonta, and E. antiquus subsequently assigned to the genus.[8] Some experts regarded the larger Asian species Palaeoloxodon namadicus as a variant or subspecies,[9] but they are now considered distinct.[2] Historically, the genus Palaeoloxodon has at times been regarded as a subgenus of Elephas, but a 2007 study of hyoid characteristics amongst living and fossil elephants has largely led to an abandonment of this hypothesis.[10]

Phylogeny showing the placement of Palaeoloxodon antiquus in relation to other elephantids based on nuclear genomes, after Palkopoulou et al. 2018

In 2016, a mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis of P. antiquus found their mitochondrial genomes were nested within the mitochondrial genome diversity of the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), with analysis of a partial nuclear genome supporting a closer relationship with L. cyclotis than to the African bush elephant (L. africana) which the authors of the paper suggested may invalidate the genus Loxodonta as currently recognized.[11][12] A subsequent study published in 2018 by the same authors based on the complete nuclear genome indicated a more complicated relationship between straight-tusked elephants and other species of elephants; according to this study, the biggest genetic contribution to straight-tusked elephants comes a lineage of elephants that was most closely related but basal to the common ancestor of forest and bush elephants (~60% of total genomic contribution), which hybridized with African forest elephants (>33%) and to a lesser extent with mammoths (~5%). The African forest elephant ancestry was more closely related to modern West African forest elephants than to other African forest elephant populations. This hybridisation likely occurred in Africa, prior to migration of Palaeoloxodon into Eurasia,[13] and appears to be shared with other Palaeoloxodon species.[14]

Evolution

Like other Eurasian Palaeoloxodon species, P. antiquus is believed to derive from the African Palaeoloxodon recki. P. antiquus first appears during the early Middle Pleistocene, with its first records around 780,000 years ago in Italy and Israel. Its earliest known appearance in northern Europe is in England around 600,000 years ago. Its arrival coincided with the replacement of Mammuthus meridionalis by Mammuthus trogontherii. There appears to be no overlap between M. meridionalis and P. antiquus, which suggests that the latter might have outcompeted the former. During P. antiquus's hundreds of thousands of years of existence, its morphology remained relatively static, unlike European mammoth populations.[15]

Range

P. antiquus is known from abundant finds across Europe, ranging as north as Great Britain and as far east as European Russia during interglacial periods. Fossils are also known from Israel, Iran and probably Turkey in West Asia, and also possibly from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. During glacial periods P. antiquus permanently resided in the Mediterranean region.[16][17] It is primarily associated with temperate and Mediterranean forest and woodland habitats, as opposed to the colder open steppe environments inhabited by contemporary mammoths.[18] Many of the remains attributed to the species from Western Asia are primarily done so for geographical reasons, and it has been suggested that some of these specimens may have closer affinities with P. recki.[19]

Behaviour

As with modern elephants, female and juvenile straight-tusked elephants are thought to have lived in matriarchal herds of related individuals, with the adult males living solitary lives. Like modern elephants, the herds would have been restricted to areas with available fresh water due to the greater hydration needs and lower mobility of the juveniles.[20]

Dental microwear studies suggest that the diet of P. antiquus was highly variable according to the local conditions, ranging from almost completely grazing to nearly totally browsing, though microwear only reflects the diet in the last few days or weeks before death, so this may be reflecting seasonal dietary variation. A 2016 dental mesowear study of specimens from Britain found that most examined specimens had a browsing predominant mixed feeding diet, with clear niche separation from the more grazing dominated diet of the contemporary Mammuthus trogontherii.[21][22]

Relationship with humans

Remains of straight-tusked elephants at numerous sites are associated with stone tools and/or bear cut and percussion marks indicative of butchery. In the case of most sites, it is unclear whether the elephants were hunted or were scavenged.[23][24] These include the Gesher Benot Ya'akov[25] (c. 780 kya,[26] though other authors attribute the remains to P. recki[2]) and Revadim Quarry[27] (sometime between 780 kya and 300-500 kya[26]) sites in Israel, the Ambrona AS3[28] (MIS 12 c. 478-425 kya) , Aridos 1 (MIS 11-9 424-300 kya) & 2[29] (MIS 11 c. 425-375 kya) sites in Spain, the Notarchirico[30] (c. 670-610 kya[26]), Ficoncella[31] (c. 500 kya), Castel di Guido[32][33][34] (c. 400 kya[34]), La Polledrara di Cecanibbio (325–310 kya)[26] and Poggetti Vecchi (c. 171 kya)[35] sites in Italy, the Marathousa 1 site (c. 500-400 kya)[36] in Greece, the Ebbsfleet site (c. 425-375 kya)[37] in England, and the Schöningen (c. 300 kya)[38] Gröbern[23][39] Taubach[39] Lehringen[40][23] and Neumark Nord[23] (all dating to the Eemian interglacial, c. 130-115 kya) sites in Germany.[23][39]

The creation of these sites is likely attributable to Homo heidelbergensis and Neanderthals.[24] Stone tools used at these sites include flakes, choppers, bifacial tools like handaxes, as well as cores.[24] At some sites, the bones of straight-tusked elephants were used to make tools.[34] There is evidence that exploitation of straight-tusked elephants in Europe increased and became more systematic from the mid-Middle Pleistocene (around 450,000 years ago) onwards.[24][39] Based on analysis of sites of straight-tusked elephants with cut marks and/or artifacts, it has been argued that there is little evidence that straight-tusked elephants were targeted preferentially over smaller animals.[24]

At the Lehringen site in north Germany, a skeleton of P. antiquus was found with a spear made of yew wood between its ribs, with flint artifacts found close by, providing clear evidence that this specimen was hunted.[40][23] Studies in 2023 proposed that in addition to Lehringen, the Neumark Nord, Taubach and Gröbern sites, which show evidence of systematic butchery, provided evidence of widespread hunting of straight-tusked elephants by Neanderthals during the Eemian in Germany, who the authors proposed were disproportionately targeting the solitary adult males, as evidence by the skewed demographics of elephants at Neumark Nord.[23][39] The remains of at least 57 elephants were found at Neumark Nord, which the authors suggested accumulated over around 300 years, with them estimating that one elephant was hunted around once every 5-6 years at the site.[23]

There are no cave paintings that unambiguously depicts P. antiquus, though an outline drawing of an elephant in El Castillo cave in Cantabria, Spain, as well as a drawing from Vermelhosa in Portugal have been suggested to possibly depict it, but could also potentially depict woolly mammoths.[18][41]

Extinction

P. antiquus retreated from northern Europe at the end of the Eemian interglacial, and fossils after that time are rare. A molar from Grotta Guattari in Italy has been suggested to date to around 57,000 years ago (though other studies have found it to have a older early Late Pleistocene age), with other remains from the Iberian Peninsula dating from 50-40,000 years ago, and possibly as late as 34,000 years ago based on a tooth found at Foz do Enxarrique in Portugal.[42][18] A late date of around 37,400 years ago has been reported from a single molar found in the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands,[43] but other authors have suggested that this date needs independent confirmation.[44] A 2020 study suggested that P. antiquus likely survived until around 28,000 years ago in the southern Iberian Peninsula, based on footprints found in Southwest Portugal and Gibraltar. Its extinction is likely to be due to climatic deterioration, possibly in association with hunting.[45]

Dwarfed descendants

Dwarf elephants that presumably evolved from the straight-tusked elephant are known from many Mediterranean islands, spanning from Sicily and Malta in the west to Cyprus in the east.[42] The responsible factors for the dwarfing of island mammals are thought to be the reduction in food availability, predation and competition.

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