It houses an almost complete skeleton of a fossilised elephant belonging to the species Elephas antiquus.
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In the Valle del Mercure have been discovered remains of pre-historic species such as " Elephas antiquus " and " Hippopotamus major ".
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A Palaeolithic scratched figure of an elephant head in the Vermelhosa area, Portugal, near the C�a Valley Park, is reported to be the depiction of an " Elephas antiquus ".
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Poulakakis and others proposed in 2002 to rename all the described specimens of larger size than the " Mammuthus creticus " under the new subspecies name " Elephas antiquus creutzburgi " ( Kuss, 1965 ).