page_title: Palaeoloxodon recki
hierarchical_section_title: Palaeoloxodon recki
caption_attribution_description: My reconstruction of the Pliocene elephant, Palaeoloxodon recki, of Africa.
context_page_description: Palaeoloxodon recki is an extinct species related to the Asian elephant Elephas maximus. At up to 14 feet in shoulder height, it was one of the largest elephant species to have ever lived. It is believed that P. recki ranged throughout Africa between 3.5 and 1 million years ago. The Asian Elephant is the closest living relative of P. recki. P. recki was a successful grass-eating elephant that lived throughout the Pliocene and the Pleistocene until it was pushed to extinction, perhaps by competition with members of the genus Loxodonta, the African elephants of today.
  A male of P. recki from Koobi Fora was 40 years old when it died. At that age it was 4.27 metres tall and weighed 12.3 tonnes. The species is known from the Middle Atlas of Morocco.
context_section_description: Palaeoloxodon recki is an extinct species related to the Asian elephant Elephas maximus. At up to 14 feet (4.27 metres) in shoulder height, it was one of the largest elephant species to have ever lived. It is believed that P. recki ranged throughout Africa between 3.5 and 1 million years ago. The Asian Elephant is the closest living relative of P. recki. P. recki was a successful grass-eating elephant that lived throughout the Pliocene and the Pleistocene until it was pushed to extinction, perhaps by competition with members of the genus Loxodonta, the African elephants of today.
  A male of P. recki from Koobi Fora was 40 years old when it died. At that age it was 4.27 metres (14.0 ft) tall and weighed 12.3 tonnes (12.1 long tons; 13.6 short tons). The species is known from the Middle Atlas of Morocco.
caption: Restoration
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