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Wild horse
Steppe bison
Hour
Late Pilocene rhinoceros
Southern elephant
Ancient hippo
Bear of Auvergne
Etruscan bear
Saber-toothed tiger
Etruscan dog
Kebele volterrana
Clay antefix
Wild horse
Steppe bison
Hour
Late Pilocene rhinoceros
Southern elephant
Ancient hippo
Bear of Auvergne
Etruscan bear
Saber-toothed tiger
Etruscan dog
Kebele volterrana
Clay antefix

Southern elephant

Anonymous

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Montevarchi Paleontological Museum

Montevarchi Paleontological Museum

Via Poggio Bracciolini 36/40, Montevarchi

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This large animal is one of the five species of extinct proboscideans that can be found in the upper Valdarno. Belonging to the Elephantidae family, it comes from Africa and is a distant ancestor of the famous woolly mammoth. It was a large animal that in some subspecies could reach a height of around 4 m and a weight of around 11 t, comparable to that of the largest known African savannah elephant. The molars of the southern elephant signal the climatic variations of the Valdarno, which passed from a more humid and warm climate, with a landscape mainly characterized by forest environments, to a more arid one with more open spaces. Mammuthus meridionalis was in fact a herbivore with a varied diet and ate both leaves and bark of trees and low plants and grass, unlike more ancient proboscidia such as the Auvergne mastodon and the Borson mastodon.
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Title: Southern elephant

Author: Anonymous

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Technique: skull with fangs

Displayed in: Montevarchi Paleontological Museum

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