Cetartiodactyla (Even-toed Ungulates)
Taxonomy
Suborder: Ruminantia (Ruminants)
Infraorder: Tragulina (Chevrotains)
Family: Tragulidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Tragulus versicolor | Thomas, 1910 | Silver-backed chevrotain, Vietnamese mousedeer | - | Vietnam | Rediscovered | Access |
Infraorder: Pecora (Bovids, Deer, Giraffids, Pronghorn etc.)
Family: Antilocapridae (Pronghorns)
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Antilocapra pacifica | Richards & McCrossin, 1991 | Pacific pronghorn | Late Pleistocene | North America | Extinct | Access |
Capromeryx furcifer | Matthews, 1924 | Matthew's pronghorn | Holocene? | USA | Extinct | Access |
Capromeryx minor | Taylor, 1911 | Diminutive pronghorn | Holocene? | The Americas | Extinct | Access |
Stockoceros conklingi | Stock, 1930 | Conkling's pronghorn | Late Pleistocene | New Mexico | Extinct | Access |
Tetrameryx shuleri | Lull, 1921 | - | Late Pleistocene | Texas, USA | Extinct | Access |
Tetrameryx onusrosagris | Roosevelt & Burden, 1934 | Shuler’s pronghorn, Quentin's pronghorn | Late Pleistocene | Arizona & New Mexico, USA | Extinct | Access |
Family: Bovidae (Antelope, Buffaloes, Cattle, Goats, Sheep, Gnu/Wildebeest etc.)
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Aepyceros sp. nov. 'Kenya' | - | Kenyan impala | Late Pleistocene | Kenya | Extinct | Access |
Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus | Pallas, 1766 | Bubal hartebeest | 1925? | Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia | Extinct | Access |
Alcelaphus buselaphus tora | Gray, 1873 | Tora hartebeest | 2010? | Ethiopia & Sudan | Missing | Access |
Alcelaphus caama colour morph 'caama' | Cuvier, 1803/4 | Cape red hartebeest | 1938 | South Africa | Invalid (colour morph) | Access |
Ammotragus lervia ornata | (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827) | Egyptian Barbary sheep | (rediscovered) | Egypt | Rediscovered | Access |
Antidorcas australis | Hendey & Hendey, 1968 | Southern springbok | c. 5,000 BC | South Africa | Extinct | Access |
Antidorcas bondi | Cooke & Wells, 1951 | Bond’s springbok | c. 5,000 BC | South Africa & Zimbabwe | Extinct | Access |
Bison antiquus | Leidy, 1852 | Ancient bison | c. 8,000 BC | USA | Extinct | Access |
Bison bison athabascae | Rhoads, 1897 | Woodland bison, Mountain bison | (rediscovered) | North America | Rediscovered | Access |
Bison bison oregonus | Bailey, 1932 | Oregon bison | 1840's/1850's | Invalid (synonym) | Access | |
Bison bison pennsylvanicus | Shoemaker, 1915 | Pennsylvanian bison, Eastern woodland bison, Eastern bison | 1825 | Pennsylvania, USA | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Bison bonasus caucasicus | Turkin & Satunin, 1904 | Caucasian wisent | 1925 or 1927 | Caucasus Mountains, Europe | Extinct | Access |
Bison bonasus hungarorum | Kretzoi, 1946 | Carpathian wisent | 1790 | Carpathian Mountains and Romania | Extinct | Access |
Bison latifrons | Harlan, 1825 | Giant bison, Giant Ice Age bison, Long-horned bison | Late Pleistocene | Canada & USA | Extinct | Access |
Bison occidentalis | Lucas, 1898 | Western bison | Holocene | North America | Extinct | Access |
Bison priscus priscus | Bojanus, 1825 | Steppe bison, Steppe wisent | c.5,400 years ago | Eurasia and North America | Extinct | Access |
Bison priscus ssp. nov. 'Rauchua River' | - | Rauchua River bison | Early Holocene | Russia | Extinct | Access |
Bison schoetensacki schoetensacki | (Freudenberg, 1910) | Woodland bison | Late Pleistocene | North America & Europe | Extinct | Access |
Bootherium bombifrons | Harlan, 1825 | Harlan's musk-ox, Woodland muskox, Helmeted muskox, Bonnet-headed muskox | Late Pleistocene | North America | Extinct | Access |
Bos gaurus sinhaleyus | Deraniyagala, 1951 | Ceylon gaur, Sri Lankan gaur | Historic times | Sri Lanka | Extinct | Access |
Bos primigenius mauretanicus | Thomas, 1881 | North African aurochs | Holocene | North Africa | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Bos primigenius namadicus | Falconer, 1859 | Indian aurochs | Late Pleistocene or Holocene | India | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Bos primigenius primigenius | Bojanus, 1825 | Aurochs, Urus, Auerochs (archaic) | Early 1600's (<1627 AD) | Eurasia | Extinct | Access |
Bos primigenius suxianensis | ? | Chinese aurochs | ? | Anhui Province, China | Invalid (nomen dubium)? | Access |
Bos sauveli | Urbain, 1937 | Kouprey, Grey ox | 1969 | Cambodia | Extinct | Access |
Bubalus arnee hosei | Lydekker, 1898 | Borneo water buffalo | 1920 | Borneo | Invalid? | Access |
Bubalus cebuensis | Croft, Heaney, Flynn & Bautista, 2006 | Cebu tamaraw | Late Pleistocene or Holocene | Cebu, Philippines | Extinct | Access |
Bubalus grovesi | Rozzi, 2017 | - | Late Pleistocene or Holocene | Sulawesi, Indonesia | Extinct | Access |
Bubalus macrocerus | Gray, 1852 (Hodgson, 1842?; Hodgson, 1847?) | Long-horned Indian buffalo | c.1850 | Assam and Bihar, India | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Bubalus mephistopheles | Hopwood, 1925 | Short-horned water buffalo | c.1200 BC | China | Extinct | Access |
Bubalus murrensis extremus | Vislobokova et al., 2020 | European water buffalo | 12.8 cal. kyr | Russia | Extinct | Access |
Bubalus murrensis murrensis | Berckhemer, 1927 | European water buffalo | c. 123,000 BC? | Germany, Italy & the Netherlands | Extinct | Access |
Bubalus palaeokerabau | Dubois, 1908 | Long-horned Javan water buffalo | Late Pleistocene | Java, Indonesia | Extinct | Access |
Bubalus platyceros | Lydekker, 1878 | Late Pleistocene | Asia | Extinct | Access | |
Bubalus quarlesi | (Ouwens, 1910) | Mountain anoa | - | Sulawesi, Indonesia | Extinct in the wild | Access |
Capra pyrenaica lusitanica | Schlegel, 1872 | Portugese Ibex | 1892 | Portugal | Extinct | Access |
Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica | Schinz, 1838 | Pyrenean Ibex, Bucardo, Pyrenean wild goat | 6 January 2000 | Pyrénées Mountains, Europe | Extinct | Access |
Connochaetes gnou antiquus | Broom, 1913 | Pleistocene black gnou/wildebeest | 20,000-40,000 BC | Africa | Extinct | Access |
Damaliscus hypsodon | Faith et al., 2012 | - | Late Pleistocene | Kenya | Extinct | Access |
Damaliscus korrigum selousi | Lydekker, 1907 | Guasin-gishu topi, Selous's topi, Selous' topi | >1930 | Guasin-gishu Plateau, Mount Elgon, western Kenya | Extinct | Access |
Damaliscus niro | Hopwood, 1936 | Pleistocene blesbok, Bastard hartebeest | Late Pleistocene | Africa | Extinct | Access |
Euceratherium collinum | (Furlong and Sinclair, 1904) | Shrub ox, Shrub-ox | Late Pleistocene | North America | Extinct | Access |
Eudorcas rufina | Thomas, 1894 | Red gazelle, Algerian gazelle, Rufous gazelle | pre-1894 | Atlas Mountains, Algeria & Morocco? | Extinct | Access |
Gazella arabica | Lichtenstein, 1827 | Arabian gazelle | 1825 | Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (allegedly) | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Gazella atlantica | Bourguignat, 1870 | Atlantic gazelle | Late Pleistocene | Algeria & Morocco | Extinct | Access |
Gazella bilkis | Groves & Lay, 1985 | Queen [of] Sheba’s Gazelle, Yemen Gazelle, Bilkis gazelle | 1951 | El Hauban, southern Yemen | Extinct or invalid | Access |
Gazella saudiya | Carruthers & Schwarz, 1935 | Saudi gazelle, Saudi Arabian dorcas gazelle | 1946 | Jordan (prehistoric), Kuwait (isolated report), Saudi Arabia & Yemen | Extinct | Access |
Gazella tingitana | Arambourg, 1957 | - | Late Pleistocene | Morocco | Extinct | Access |
Hemitragus bonali | Harlé & Stehlin, 1913 (1914?) | Bonal tahr | 100ka | Europe (western) | Extinct | Access |
Hemitragus cedrensis | Crégut-Bonnoure, 1989 | - | Late Pleistocene | France | Extinct | Access |
Hippotragus leucophaeus | (Pallas, 1766) | Bluebuck, Blue antelope, Blaauwbok, Blaubok | c.1800 | Swellendam district, Cape Province/Colony, South Africa | Extinct | Access |
Hippotragus niger variani | Thomas, 1916 | Giant sable, Giant sable antelope | (rediscovered) | Angola | Rediscovered | Access |
Homoioceras singae | Bate, 1949 | - | Late Pleistocene | Sudan | Extinct | Access |
Kobus leche robertsi | Rothschild, 1907 | Roberts' lechwe, Kawambwa lechwe | early 1900's | Zambia | Extinct | Access |
Kobus leche venterae | Broom, 1913 | Cape lechwe, Venter's lechwe | Late Pleistocene? | Florisbad (=Haagenstad), South Africa | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Megalotragus priscus | Broom, 1909 | Giant wildebeest | Late Pleistocene | South Africa | Extinct | Access |
Megalovis guangxiensis | Han, 1987 | - | Late Pleistocene | Guangxi, China | Extinct | Access |
Myotragus balearicus | Bate, 1909 | Balearic Islands cave goat | 2830-2470 cal. BC | Balearic Islands (Cabrera, Dragonera, Mallorca & Menorca) | Extinct | Access |
Nanger dama mhorr | (Bennett, 1833) | Mhorr, Mhorr gazelle | 1968 | northern Africa | Extinct in the wild | Access |
Oreamnos harringtoni | Stock, 1936 | Harrington's mountain goat | c. 9,000 BC | USA | Extinct | Access |
Oryx dammah | (Cretzschmar, 1826) | Scimitar-horned oryx, Sahara oryx | ? | North Africa | Extinct in the wild | Access |
Ourebia ourebi kenyae | Meinhertzhagen, 1905 | Kenya oribi | 1960's-1980's | lower slopes of Mount Kenya, Kenya | Extinct | Access |
Ovis ammon jubata | Peters, 1876 | Northern Chinese argali | 24 August 1972 or later | China (northern) | Missing | Access |
Ovis canadensis auduboni | Merriam, 1901 | Badlands bighorn (sheep), Audubon's bighorn (sheep) | Early 1900's | The Dakotas and Nebraska, USA | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Praeovibos priscus | Staudinger, 1908 | - | Late Pleistocene | Eurasia and North America | Extinct | Access |
Rusingoryx atopocranion | Pickford & Thomas, 1984 | - | Late Pleistocene | Kenya (Rusinga Island & Mfangano Island) | Extinct | Access |
Saiga binagadensis | Alekperova, 1955 | Late Pleistocene | Transcaucasica | Extinct | Access | |
Saiga borealis | (Tschersky, 1876) | Late Pleistocene | Eurasia | Extinct | Access | |
Saiga prisca | Nehring, 1891 | Late Pleistocene | Moravia | Extinct | Access | |
Saiga ricei | Late Pleistocene | Alaska & Siberia | Extinct | Access | ||
Sivacobus sankaliai | Vrba, Bibi & Costa, 2015 | - | Late Pleistocene | Gujarat, India | Extinct | Access |
Spirocerus kiakhtensis | Boule & Teilhard, 1928 | Screw-horned antelope | Late Pleistocene | Baikal Region, Russia | Extinct | Access |
Symbos cavifrons | Leidy, 1853 | Woodland musk ox(en) | Late Pleistocene | North America | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Syncerus antiquus | Duvernoy, 1851 | Giant long-horned buffalo, Giant buffalo, Long-horned buffalo | c.9,000 BC | Africa | Extinct | Access |
Taurotragus oryx "antiquus" | [Peters et al. 1994] | Pleistocene eland | Late Pleistocene | Africa | ? | Access |
CAPRINAE sp. et. gen. nov. | - | - | Holocene | South Africa | Extinct | Access |
Family: Cervidae (Deer)
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Alces alces caucasicus | Vereshchagin, 1955 | Caucasian elk, Caucasian moose | 1810 or later | Caucasus region, Europe | Extinct | Access |
Alces latifrons | Johnson, 1874 | Broad-fronted moose | Late Pleistocene-Holocene border | Europe | Extinct | Access |
Agalmaceros blicki | Frick, 1937 | Blick's deer | Late Pleistocene | Ecuador | Extinct | Access |
Antifer ensenadensis | Ameghino, 1889 | Late Pleistocene | Brazil | Extinct | Access | |
Antifer niemeyeri | Casamiquela, 1984 | - | Late Pleistocene | Chile | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Antifer ultra | Ameghino, 1889 | - | Late Pleistocene or Holocene | South America | Extinct | Access |
Bretzia nebrascensis | Gunnell & Foral, 1994 | - | Late Pleistocene-Holocene border | Nebraska & South Dakota, USA | Extinct | Access |
Candiacervus cretensis | Simonelli, 1908 | Cretan dwarf candiacervine deer | Late Pleistocene | Crete, Greece | Extinct | Access |
Candiacervus devosi | van der Geer, 2018 | - | Late Pleistocene | Crete, Greece | Extinct | Access |
Candiacervus dorothensis | (Capasso Barbato, 1990) | - | Late Pleistocene | Crete, Greece | Extinct | Access |
Candiacervus listeri | van der Geer, 2018 | - | Late Pleistocene | Crete, Greece | Extinct | Access |
Candiacervus major | (Capasso Barbato & Petronio, 1986) | - | Late Pleistocene | Crete, Greece | Extinct | Access |
Candiacervus rethymnensis | Kuss, 1975 | - | Late Pleistocene | Crete, Greece | Extinct | Access |
Candiacervus reumeri | van der Geer, 2018 | - | Late Pleistocene | Crete, Greece | Extinct | Access |
Candiacervus ropalophorus | De Vos, 1984 | - | Late Pleistocene | Crete, Greece | Extinct | Access |
Cervalces scotti | Lydekker, 1898 | Stag-moose, Elk-moose | Late Pleistocene | North America | Extinct | Access |
Cervus astylodon | (Matsumoto, 1926) | - | Late Pleistocene | Japan | Extinct | Access |
Cervus canadensis canadensis | Erxleben, 1777 | Eastern elk, Wapiti, American wapiti, American elk | c.1880 | Canada | Extinct | Access |
Cervus canadensis combrayicus | Croitor, 2019 (In Press) | Late Pleistocene | France | Extinct | Access | |
Cervus canadensis palmidactyloceros | De Stefano, 1911 | - | Late Pleistocene | Italy | Extinct | Access |
Cervus canadensis wallichii | (Cuvier, 1823) | Tibetan red deer, shou | (rediscovered) | Bhutan & Tibet | Rediscovered | Access |
Cervus elaphus aretinus | Azzaroli, 1961 | - | Late Pleistocene | Italy | Extinct | Access |
Cervus elaphus merriami | Nelson, 1902 | Merriam's elk | 1906 | North America | Extinct | Access |
Cervus elaphus siciliae | Pohlig, 1893 | Sicilian deer | Late Pleistocene | Sicily, Italy | Extinct | Access |
Cervus grayi | Zdansky, 1925 | Late Pleistocene | China | Extinct | Access | |
Cervus nippon grassianus | Heude, 1884 | Shanxi sika, Shansi sika, Shanxi sika deer | c.1940 | Shanxi Province, China | Extinct in the wild | Access |
Cervus nippon mandarinus | Milne-Edwards, 1871 | North China sika, Mandarin sika deer | - | Hebei Province, China | Extinct in the wild | Access |
Cervus nippon pseudaxis | Gervais, 1841 | Vietnamese sika deer, Tonkin sika | ? | Vietnam | Extinct in the wild | Access |
Cervus nippon taiouanus | Blyth, 1860 | Formosan sika deer | 1969 | Taiwan (=Formosa) | Reintroduced to the wild | Access |
Dama geiselana | Pfeiffer, 1998 | - | Late Pleistocene | Germany | Extinct | Access |
Dama mesopotamica | Brooke, 1875 | Mesopotamian fallow deer, Persian fallow deer | (rediscovered) | Iran | Rediscovered | Access |
Elaphurus davidianus | Milne-Edwards, 1866 | Pere David's deer, Père David's deer, Milu | 1939 | China | Extinct in the wild | Access |
Epieuryceros proximus | (Castellano, 1945) | - | Holocene? | South America | Extinct | Access |
Haploidoceros mediterraneus | Bonifay, 1967 | - | c. 88,000 BC | France | Extinct | Access |
Megaceroides algericus | Lydekker, 1890 | North African giant deer | Holocene | Algeria & Morocco | Extinct | Access |
Megaloceros cazioti | Depéret, 1897 | - | Late Pleistocene | Corsica (France) and Sardinia (Italy) | Extinct | Access |
Megaloceros dawkinsi | (Newton, 1882) | - | Late Pleistocene | Britain | Extinct | Access |
Megaloceros giganteus | (Blumenbach, 1799) | Eurasian giant deer, Giant deer, Irish elk, Giant Irish deer | c. 6,000 BC | Eurasia (Ireland to China) | Extinct | Access |
Megaloceros sp. nov. 'Sadali' | - | - | Late Pleistocene | Sardinia, Italy | Extinct | Access |
Morenelaphus brachyceros | Gervais & Ameghino, 1880 | - | Late Pleistocene | Brazil | Extinct | Access |
Morenelaphus lujanensis | (Ameghino, 1888) | - | Late Pleistocene or Holocene | Uruguay | Extinct | Access |
Muntiacus gigas | Wei et al., 1990 | Giant muntjac, Large-antlered muntjac | (rediscovered) | China, Laos & Vietnam | Rediscovered | Access |
Muntiacus montanus | Robinson & Kloss, 1918 | - | (rediscovered) | Sumatra, Indonesia | Rediscovered | Access |
Muntiacus rooseveltorum | Osgood, 1932 | Roosevelts' barking deer, Roosevelts' muntjac, Laotian barking deer | (rediscovered) | Laos | Rediscovered | Access |
Navahoceros fricki | Schultz & Howard, 1935 | Frick's mountain deer | Holocene? | Americas | Extinct | Access |
Odocoileus lucasi | Hay, 1927 | American mountain deer | Late Pleistocene | Americas | Extinct | Access |
Odocoileus salinae | Frick, 1937 | - | Holocene | Ecuador & Peru | Extinct, if distinct | Access |
Paraceros fragilis | (Ameghino, 1888) | - | Late Pleistocene | South America | Extinct | Access |
Rangifer tarandus constantini | Flerov, 1934 | - | Late Pleistocene | Europe | Extinct | Access |
Rangifer tarandus dawsoni | Thompson-Seton, 1900 | Dawson's caribou, Dawson's dwarf caribou, Queen Charlotte Islands caribou, Queen Charlotte reindeer | 1908 | Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Rangifer tarandus eogroenlandicus | Degerbøl, 1957 | Greenland tundra reindeer, East Greenland reindeer, Arctic reindeer | 1900 (c.1950?) | Greenland (eastern) | Extinct | Access |
Rangifer tarandus guettardi | Desmarest, 1822 | - | Late Pleistocene | Europe | Extinct | Access |
Rucervus eldii eldii | M'Clelland, 1842 | Eld's deer, Sangai, Manipur's brow-antlered deer, Brow-antlered deer, Manipur brown-antlered deer | Rediscovered | Manipur, India | Rediscovered | Access |
Rucervus eldii siamensis | (Lydekker, 1915) | Siamese eld’s deer | (rediscovered) | Cambodia, Laos, Thailand & Vietnam | Rediscovered | Access |
Rucervus schomburgki | Blyth, 1863 | Schomburgk's deer | 1938 | Thailand | Missing | Access |
Rusa marianna boninensis | Lydekker, 1905 | Bonin Islands sambar deer | c.1925 | Ogasawara Islands (=Bonin Islands), Japan | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Sangamona fugitiva | Hay, 1920 | - | Late Pleistocene | North America | Extinct | Access |
Sinomegaceros baotouensis | (Huang, Li & Nie, 1989) | - | Late Pleistocene | East Asia | Extinct | Access |
Sinomegaceros ordosianus mentougouensis | ? | - | Late Pleistocene | Asia | Extinct | Access |
Sinomegaceros ordosianus minor | (Kamei, 1958) | - | Late Pleistocene | Japan | Invalid? | Access |
Sinomegaceros ordosianus ordosonianus | Young, 1932 | - | Late Pleistocene | Asia | Extinct | Access |
Sinomegaceros yabei | (Shikama, 1938) | Giant Japanese elk, Yabe's giant deer | Late Pleistocene | Japan | Extinct | Access |
Torontoceros hypogaeus | Churcher & Peterson, 1982 | - | Late Pleistocene | Canada | Extinct | Access |
Family: Giraffidae (Giraffes and relatives)
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Giraffa camelopardalis camelopardalis | (Linnaeus, 1758) | ? | Sudan (south-eastern) and Ethiopia (northern) | Probably extinct | Access | |
Giraffa camelopardalis senegalensis | Petzold et al., 2020 | Senegalese giraffe | ? | Senegal | Probably extinct | Access |
Sivatherium maurusium | Pomel, 1893 | - | Late Pleistocene? | Afro-Asia | Extinct | Access |
Family: Moschidae (Musk Deer)
—No subordinate taxa
Suborder: Suina (Peccaries and Pigs)
Family: Suidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Babyroussa babyrussa beruensis | Hooijer, 1948 | Beru babyrussa | Late Pleistocene? | Sulawesi, Indonesia | Extinct | Access |
Babyrousa bolabatuensis | Hooijer, 1950 | Bola Batu babirusa | Holocene? | Sulawesi (south-western), Indonesia | Extinct? | Access |
Kolpochoerus cf. majus | - | - | 28,670±600 14 C yBP | Rusinga Island, Kenya | Extinct | Access |
Metridiochoerus compactus | (Van Hoepen & Van Hoepen, 1932) | - | Late Pleistocene? | Zimbabwe | Extinct | Access |
Phacochoerus aethiopicus aethiopicus | Pallas, 1766 | Cape warthog | c. 1865 (1871?) | South Africa | Extinct | Access |
Porcula salvania | Hodgson, 1847 | Pygmy hog | (rediscovered) | Bhutan, India and Nepal | Rediscovered | Access |
Sus brachygnathus | Dubois, 1908 | - | Late Pleistocene? | Java, Indonesia | Extinct | Access |
Sus bucculentus | Heude, 1892 | Heude's pig, Indo-chinese warty pig, Vietnam warty pig | 1892? | Laos & Vietnam | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Sus cebifrons cebifrons | Heude, 1888 | Cebu warty pig | 1960's | Cebu, Philippines | Extinct | Access |
Sus lydekkeri | Zdansky, 1928 | Late Pleistocene | China | Extinct | Access | |
Sus scrofa libycus | Gray, 1868 | - | ? | North Africa | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Sus scrofa sennaarensis | Fitzinger, 1858 | Sennar pig, Egyptian wild boar | <1900 AD | Egypt to north Sudan | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Sus xiaozhu | Han et al., 1975 | Pleistocene timpuriu | Late Pleistocene | China | Extinct | Access |
Family: Tayassuidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Brasiliochoerus stenocephalus | (Lund in Reinhardt, 1880) | Late Pleistocene | Brazil | Extinct | Access | |
Catagonus bonaerensis | Ameghino, 1904 | Buenos Aires peccary | Late Pleistocene | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Extinct | Access |
Catagonus stenocephalus | Lund in Reinhardt, 1880 | Narrow-headed peccary | Late Pleistocene or Holocene | Bolivia & Brazil | Extinct | Access |
Catagonus wagneri | (Rusconi, 1930) | Chacoan peccary, Tagua | (rediscovered) | Argentina, Bolivia & Paraguay | Rediscovered | Access |
Muknalia minima | Stinnesbeck et al., 2017 | - | Late Pleistocene-Holocene | Mexico | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Mylohyus fossilis | Leidy, 1860 | Fossil peccary | Late Pleistocene | North America | Extinct | Access |
Mylohyus nasutus | Leidy, 1868 | Long-nosed peccary | Late Pleistocene | USA | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Parachoerus carlesi | Rusconi, 1930 | Late Pleistocene | Argentina | Extinct | Access | |
Platygonus compressus | Leconte, 1848 | Flat-headed peccary | Late Pleistocene | North America | Extinct | Access |
Suborder: Tylopoda (Camelids)
Family: Camelidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Camelops hesternus | Leidy, 1873 | Yesterday's camel, Western camel | Late Pleistocene | USA | Extinct | Access |
Camelus concordiae | Martini et al. in Martini, 2019 | - | Late Pleistocene | Syria | Extinct | Access |
Camelus moreli | Martini et al. in Martini, 2019 | Syrian camel, Morel's camel | Late Pleistocene | Syria | Extinct | Access |
Camelus thomasi | Pomel, 1893 | Thomas' camel | Late Pleistocene or Holocene | North Africa & Israel) | Extinct | Access |
Eulamaops paralellus | (Ameghino, 1889) | - | Late Pleistocene-Holocene border | Argentina | Extinct | Access |
Hemiauchenia macrocephala | Cope, 1893 | Big-headed llama | Holocene? | New Mexico, USA | Extinct | Access |
Hemiauchenia paradoxa | Gervais & Ameghino, 1880 | - | Late Pleistocene | Argentina, Bolivia & Brazil | Extinct | Access |
Lama gracilis | Gervais & Ameghino, 1881 | Gracile llama | Late Pleistocene | South America | Extinct | Access |
Palaeolama aequatorialis | Hoffstetter, 1952 | - | Late Pleistocene | Ecuador & Peru | Extinct | Access |
Palaeolama major | Liais, 1872 | - | Late Pleistocene | Brazil | Extinct | Access |
Palaeolama mirifica | Simpson, 1929 | - | Late Pleistocene | The Americas | Extinct | Access |
Palaeolama weddelli | (Gervais, 1855) | - | Late Pleistocene | Bolivia | Extinct | Access |
Suborder: Whippomorpha (Dolphins, Hippos, Porpoises, Whales etc.)
Infraorder: Ancodonta (Hippos)
Family: Hippopotamidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Choeropsis liberiensis heslopi | Corbet, 1969 | Heslop's Pygmy Hippo(potamus), Niger Delta Pygmy Hippo(potamus) | <1946 | Niger Delta, Nigeria | Missing | Access |
Hexaprotodon palaeindicus | Falconer and Cautley, 1847 | - | Late Pleistocene? | India | Extinct | Access |
Hexaprotodon sinhaleyus | Deraniyagala, 1935 | - | Late Pleistocene? | Sri Lanka | Extinct | Access |
Hexaprotodon sivalensis | Falconer & Cautley, 1836 | - | Late Pleistocene? | Asia | Extinct | Access |
Hippopotamus antiquus | Desmarest, 1822 | European hippo(potamus) | Late Pleistocene | Europe | Extinct | Access |
Hippopotamus creutzburgi creutzburgi | Boekschoten & Sondaar, 1966 | Cretan dwarf hippo(potamus) | Late Pleistocene | Crete, Greece | Extinct | Access |
Hippopotamus guldbergi | Fovet, Faure & Guérin, 2011 | Madagascan dwarf hippopotamus, Madagascan pygmy hippo, Malagasy hippo | Holocene | Madagascar | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Hippopotamus laloumena | Faure & Guérin, 1990 | Malagasy hippo(potamus), Laloumene's hippo(potamus) | Holocene | Madagascar | Extinct | Access |
Hippopotamus lemerlei | Grandidier in Milne-Edwards, 1868 | Madagascan dwarf hippopotamus, Malagasy hippo, Lemerle's hippopotamus | Holocene | Madagascar | Extinct | Access |
Hippopotamus madagascariensis | Guldberg, 1883 | Madagascan dwarf hippopotamus, Madagascan pygmy hippo, Malagasy hippo | Holocene | Madagascar | Extinct | Access |
Hippopotamus melitensis | Major, 1902 | - | Late Pleistocene | Malta | Extinct | Access |
Hippopotamus minor | (Desmarest, 1822) | Cyprus dwarf hippo(potamus), Cypriot pygmy hippo(potamus) | Late Pleistocene | Cyprus | Extinct | Access |
Hippopotamus pentlandi | Von Meyer, 1832 | Sicilian Dwarf Hippo(potamus) | Late Pleistocene | Malta & Sicily (Italy) | Extinct | Access |
Infraorder: Cetacea (Cetaceans)
Parvorder: Mysticeti (Baleen Whales)
Superfamily: Balaenoidea (Right Whales)
Family: Balaenidae (Greater Right Whales)
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Balaena swedenborgii | Liljeborg, 1867 | Swedenborg whale | c.6,000 BC | Sweden | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Family: Cetotheriidae (Pygmy Right Whale)
—No subordinate taxa
Superfamily: Balaenopteroidea (Baleen whales, Humpback Whales, etc.)
Family: Balaenopteridae (Slender-back Rorquals, Humpback Whale)
—No subordinate taxa
Family: Eschrichtiidae (Gray Whale)
—No subordinate taxa1
1 The Atlantic gray/grey whale may be added in the future (synonym)
Parvorder: Odontoceti (Toothed Whales)
Superfamily: Delphinoidea (Oceanic Dolphins, Porpoises etc.)
Family: Delphinidae (Oceanic True Dolphins)
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Lagenodelphis hosei | Fraser, 1956 | Fraser's dolphin, Sarawak dolphin | (rediscovered) | Pantropical | Rediscovered | Access |
Stenella clymene | Gray, 1846 | Clymene dolphin, Helmet dolphin, Atlantic spinner dolphin | (rediscovered) | Atlantic Ocean | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Monodontidae (Beluga, Narwhal)
—No subordinate taxa
Family: Phocoenidae (Porpoises)
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Phocoena sinus | Norris & McFarland, 1958 | Vaquita porpoise, Gulf Of California Harbour porpoise, Gulf Of California porpoise, Gulf porpoise | - | Gulf of California (northern), Mexico | Functionally extinct | Access |
Superfamily: Physeteroidea (Sperm Whales)
Family: Kogiidae (Lesser Sperm Whales)
—No subordinate taxa
Family: Physeteridae (Sperm Whale)
—No subordinate taxa
Superfamily: Platanistoidea (River Dolphins)
Family: Iniidae (South American River Dolphins)
—No subordinate taxa
Family: Lipotidae (Baiji)
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Lipotes vexillifer | Miller, 1918 | Baiji, Yangtze River dolphin, Chinese river dolphin, Changjiang dolphin, Chinese Lake dolphin, Whitefin dolphin, White flag dolphin, White-flag dolphin | 2002 | Qiantang River (incl. Fuchun River) & Yangtze River (incl. Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake), China | Extinct | Access |
Family: Platanistidae (South Asian River Dolphin)
—No subordinate taxa
Family: Pontoporiidae (La Plata Dolphin)
—No subordinate taxa
Superfamily: Ziphioidea (Beaked Whales)
Family: Ziphidae
—No subordinate taxa