Loxodonta atlantica
Loxodonta atlantica is an extinct African species of elephant in the genus Loxodonta (which includes living African elephants). It was larger than modern African elephants, with more progressive dentition. It includes Pleistocene fossils from Ternifine, Algeria Middle Pleistocene fossils from Elandsfontein, South Africa and Late Pliocene fossils from the Omo River, Ethiopia It is suggested to have an extinction date of around 400,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene. L. atlantica has been suggested to have probably derived from L. adaurora; or L. exoptata. It is likely ancestral to the living African bush elephant, L. africana, which it coexisted with during the Middle Pleistocene prior to its extinction. The species is divided into two subspecies: L. atlantica atlantica (northern Africa) and L. atlantica zulu (southern Africa). The type for Loxodonta atlantica is housed in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, but is listed without a specimen number. References

Prehistoric elephants
Pliocene proboscideans
Pleistocene proboscideans
Pliocene first appearances
Pleistocene species extinctions
Pliocene mammals of Africa
Pleistocene mammals of Africa
Fossil taxa described in 1879