Grotte Santo Stefano elephant
Straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) at
Grotte Santo Stefano in Italy

Biography

☨ ⚪ Grotte Santo Stefano elephant
Grotte Santo Stefano elephant as museum specimen. Straight-tusked elephant. Skeleton of an Elephas antiquus in the Museo paleontologico of the university Sapienzia, Rome
Museum locations
Present / last location:	Sapienza Museum of Paleontology, in Italy

Date of arrival

	Sapienza Museum of Paleontology, Roma, Italy

Identification


Description
Species:	Straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus)
Sex and age:	, unknown age
Status:	fossil
Characteristics:	nearly complete skeleton
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:	in Europe unspecified location
Death
Dead:	†
Death location:	Grotte Santo Stefano near the village of Grotte Santo Stefano, Italy
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Grotte Santo Stefano, in Italy

Date of arrival

	Grotte Santo Stefano
Record history
History of updates	2021-06-28

Latest document update	2021-09-26 18:05:43
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† Grotte Santo Stefano elephant is a dead fossil Straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), , who died at Grotte Santo Stefano, in Italy, .

Museum locationThe Museum specimen remains of this animal is within the collection at Sapienza Museum of Paleontology, in Roma, Italy.

Origin

Grotte Santo Stefano elephant was born wild at Europe unspecified location.

Comments / pictures

The Skeleton was found in the early 1950s in late Middle Pleistocene diatomaceous layers outcropping near the village of Grotte Santo Stefano

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Grotte Santo Stefano elephant, Straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) located at Sapienza Museum of Paleontology in Italy. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=10780. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight-tusked_elephant

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