Cetartiodactyla (Even-toed Ungulates)

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

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Cetartiodactyla (Even-toed Ungulates)

Taxonomy

Suborder: Ruminantia (Ruminants)

Infraorder: Tragulina (Chevrotains)

Family: Tragulidae

Infraorder: Pecora (Bovids, Deer, Giraffids, Pronghorn etc.)

Family: Antilocapridae (Pronghorns)

Family: Bovidae (Antelope, Buffaloes, Cattle, Goats, Sheep, Gnu/Wildebeest etc.)

Family: Cervidae (Deer)

Family: Giraffidae (Giraffes and relatives)

Family: Moschidae (Musk Deer)

Suborder: Suina (Peccaries and Pigs)

Family: Suidae

Family: Tayassuidae

Suborder: Tylopoda (Camelids)

Family: Camelidae

Suborder: Whippomorpha (Dolphins, Hippos, Porpoises, Whales etc.)

Infraorder: Ancodonta (Hippos)

Family: Hippopotamidae

Infraorder: Cetacea (Cetaceans)

Parvorder: Mysticeti (Baleen Whales)

Superfamily: Balaenoidea (Right Whales)

Family: Balaenidae (Greater Right Whales)

Family: Cetotheriidae (Pygmy Right Whale)

Superfamily: Balaenopteroidea (Baleen whales, Humpback Whales, etc.)

Family: Balaenopteridae (Slender-back Rorquals, Humpback Whale)

Family: Eschrichtiidae (Gray Whale)

Parvorder: Odontoceti (Toothed Whales)

Superfamily: Delphinoidea (Oceanic Dolphins, Porpoises etc.)

Family: Delphinidae (Oceanic True Dolphins)

Family: Monodontidae (Beluga, Narwhal)

Family: Phocoenidae (Porpoises)

Superfamily: Physeteroidea (Sperm Whales)

Family: Kogiidae (Lesser Sperm Whales)

Family: Physeteridae (Sperm Whale)

Superfamily: Platanistoidea (River Dolphins)

Family: Lipotidae (Baiji)

Family: Platanistidae (South Asian River Dolphin)

Family: Pontoporiidae (La Plata Dolphin)

Superfamily: Ziphioidea (Beaked Whales)

Family: Ziphidae