Paul E. Pieris Deraniyagala
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Director, National Museums of Ceylon, 1939–63. Dean, Faculty of Arts, Vidyodaya University of Ceylon, 1961–64. Specialist on fossil and recent animals of the Indian subcontinent, including extinct human populations. Author of Some Extinct Elephants, Their Relatives and the Two Living Species.
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Proboscidean, (order Proboscidea), any of the group of mammals that includes elephants and their extinct relatives such as mammoths and mastodons. Although only three species of elephant are extant today, more than 160 extinct proboscidean species have been identified from remains found on all…
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