Loxodonta atlantica is an extinct African species of elephant in the genus Loxodonta (which includes living African elephants).

It was larger than modern African elephants, with more progressive dentition.

[3] It is suggested to have an extinction date of around 400,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene.

[6] It is likely ancestral to the living African bush elephant, L. africana,[6] with which it coexisted during the Middle Pleistocene prior to its extinction.

[5] The type for Loxodonta atlantica is housed in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, but is listed without a specimen number.