Loxodonta cookei

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]

Loxodonta cookei Temporal range: Late Miocene - Early Pliocene
Reconstruction of Loxodonta cookei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Family:	Elephantidae
Genus:	Loxodonta
Species:	†L. cookei
Binomial name
†Loxodonta cookei Sanders, 2007