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Loxodonta cookei is an extinct species of African elephant. The species name is dedicated to H. Basil S. Cooke, a paleontologist who specialized in extinct African mammals. Its fossils have been found in Uganda,Tanzania and South Africa. Most of the fossils found from this species were teeth.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | Elephantidae |
| Genus: | Loxodonta |
| Species: | †L. cookei
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| Binomial name | |
| †Loxodonta cookei Sanders, 2007
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References
edit- ^ Sanders, W. (2007). "Taxonomic review of fossil Proboscidea (Mammalia) from Langebaanweg, South Africa" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 62 (1) (Online ed.): 1–16. doi:10.1080/00359190709519192. S2CID 27499106.
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