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ALTHOUGH a fine series of elephant remains from Tiraspol, Government of Kherson, preserved in the Geological Museum of Moscow University, forms the basis of Madam Pavlow's monograph, the author has examined several other collections, such as one from Kouialnik, near Odessa, and a second at Kief. The Tiraspol elephant has been identified with that form of the mammoth distinguished, on account of the thicker plates of its molars, as Elephas trogontherii, and characteristic of the horizon of the Cromer Forest-bed. Madam Pavlow finds, however, that in the Tiraspol molars the plates are still thicker, and accordingly regards them as representing a new species-öE. wüsti, or öwuesti as it should be spelt—which is considered to connect the typical mammoth by means of E. trogontherii with the broad-plated E. meridionalis of the Val d'Arno and Forest-bed. Two molars from Tiraspol are stated to approximate respectively to those of E. armeniacus and E. antiquus, but it is scarcely likely that three more or less closely allied forms occur in one deposit. E. trogontherii is recorded from Nijni-Novgorod, E. meridionalis from Kowialnik, and the typical primigenius from a prehistoric station at Kievo-Kirillovskaia. Finally, a molar from Tiraspol and a second from Bessarabia are respectively compared with those of the Siwalik E. hysudricus and E. planifrons.
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L., R. The Fossil Elephants of Russia 1 . Nature 87, 229–230 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087229b0
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