page_title: Palaeoloxodon falconeri
section_title: Taxonomy
hierarchical_section_title: Palaeoloxodon falconeri / Taxonomy
caption_attribution_description: English: My reconstruction of the meter-tall en:Mediterranean elephant, en:Elephas falconeri of Late en:Pleistocene en:Sicily (C) Stanton F. Fink
context_page_description: Palaeoloxodon falconeri, also known as the pygmy elephant, Maltese pygmy elephant, or Sicilian dwarf elephant, is an extinct Siculo-Maltese species of elephant that was derived from the straight-tusked elephant.
context_section_description: In 1867, George Busk had proposed the species Elephas falconeri for many of the smallest molars selected from the material originally ascribed by Hugh Falconer to Palaeoloxodon melitensis.
caption: Restoration
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