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Elephantid Species of the Ice Ages (Mainland)

For each image, identify the species of elephant or elephant relative alive during the peak of the last ice age, 30,000 years ago.
Due to elephants and their relatives being excellent swimmers, there were over a dozen elephantid species found on islands. These species are not included, as reconstructions of some of these species are not available.
This list is not including an extinct species of elephant found in Africa, E. Iolensis, for which I could find no good reconstructions
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Kearsarge
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Level 68
Dec 30, 2022
I went with a two species model of Stegodon in the end Pleistocene, and a three species model of Paleoloxodon. This is mostly just based on which species I could find pictures of. The picture of S. Orientalis appears to be a Korean reconstruction of a Stegodon species. As I could not read the korean caption, I made the gamble that this was an example of S. Orientalis. Could be another Stegodon species, I have no idea, but S. Orientalis would be the species in that area.

The picture of the Pacific Mastodon is another example of taking risks with the pictures. It is labelled as an American Mastodon in Mexico. It was made before Pacific Mastodons were split from American Mastodons due to DNA evidence, so it "could" show a Pacific Mastodon. I believe that the origin of Mexican mastodons is vague as to which species it would be, might even be a species complex with both species interbreeding there, or a third mastodon species for that population, so it might not work

Kearsarge
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Level 68
Dec 30, 2022
As far as species not here goes, there are at least 15 species not shown here, with every midsized or larger island near a mainland supporting their own dwarf elephant, or dwarf mammoth species. Basically, elephants and their relatives can swim really well, so they make it out to islands, get stuck there, and evolve into tiny forms the size of cows or smaller that become their own species. While a couple of species have reconstructions, like the pygmy mammoth of the Channel Islands, the dwarf elephants of Malta, or the stegodons of Flores, most do not so I made the decision to not include these.

The only mainland species that I could not include is Elephas Iolensis, an obscure African species of Asian Elephant that coexisted with existing African Elephants. I could not find any good reconstructions of it that were not just asian elephant pictures.

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