Fw: Ceratopsian mass estimates

[Cliff Green <dinonaut@emerytelcom.net>]

Let me try this again. I accidently sent this out before finishing. D'oh!

 Dear Tom and List,

     What does the Guiness  book of world records say is the largest
 modern elephant on record? I have heard that there were jumbo sized ones
( pun intended ) that were in and about ten tons.  If I have been
misinformed, please enlighten me further.

Towards the within Cliff

 Where does your 10 t Loxodonta mass estimate
> come from? Nowak (Walker's Mammals of the World, 6th Edition) lists 7.5 t
as
> the upper
> > part of the recorded range for historic Loxodonta. Certainly extinct
> proboscideans (Mammuthus trogonotherii, M. imperator) greatly
> > exceeded this, but are their directly measured specimens of African
> elephants that give this mass?
> >
> >
> > Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
> > Vertebrate Paleontologist
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