Palaeoloxodon jolensis (often historically erroneously spelled iolensis) is an extinct species of elephant.

The type specimen is located in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

[1] It is either considered the descendant species or last evolutionary stage of Palaeoloxodon recki in Africa.

The species is known from remains found across Africa (including Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, South Africa, and Kenya), which are largely poorly dated to approximately the late Middle Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene, with some authors suggesting an exclusively late Middle Pleistocene age, as the only well dated specimens of the species are over 130,000 years old.

The species’ extinction may have been caused by increased climate change, to be replaced by the modern, generalist African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana).