Perissodactyla (Odd-toed Ungulates)
Family: Equidae (Asses, Horses and Zebras)1
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Equus africanus atlanticus | Thomas, 1884 | Algerian wild ass, Atlas wild ass, North African wild ass | c. 300 AD | North Africa | Extinct | Access |
Equus africanus mureybeti | Ducos, 1986 | Tell Muraibit equid, Tell Muraibit ass | Holocene | Syria | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Equus alaskae | Winans, 1989 | - | Late Pleistocene | Alaska, USA | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus algericus | Bagtache, Hadjouis & Eisenmann, 1984 | Algerian horse | Holocene | Algeria & Morocco | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus andium | Branco, 1883 | - | Late Pleistocene? | Chile | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus caballus silvaticus | Vetulani, 1928 | Forest tarpan, Forest horse | ? | Europe | Invalid? | Access |
Equus capensis | Broom, 1909 | Cape zebra, Giant Cape horse | Late Pleistocene-Holocene border | Africa | Extinct | Access |
Equus cedralensis | Alberdi et al., 2014 | - | Late Pleistocene | Mexico | Invalid? | Access |
Equus complicatus | Leidy, 1858 | - | Late Pleistocene | USA | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus conversidens | Owen, 1869 | Mexican horse | Holocene? | USA | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus dalianensis | Xinxue, Yufeng, Qinqi & Yi, 1985 | Dalian horse | Late Pleistocene | China | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus excelsus | Leidy, 1858 | - | Late Pleistocene? | USA | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus ferus ferus | Boddaert, 1785 | Tarpan | mid 1800's-early 1900s | Europe | Extinct | Access |
Equus ferus latipes | (Gromova, 1949) | - | Holocene | Europe | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus ferus przewalskii | (Poliakov, 1881) | Przewalski's horse, Mongolian wild horse, Dzungarian horse, takhi | - | Asia | Invalid (feral population) | Access |
Equus fossilis | von Meyer, 1832 | - | Late Pleistocene? | Europe | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus fraternus | Leidy, 1860 | - | Late Pleistocene | North America | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus hemionus bedfordi | Matschie, 1911 | - | 1918 or later | Mongolia | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Equus hemionus binagadensis | Eisenmann & Mashkour, 1999 | - | Late Pleistocene-Holocene border | Azerbaijan & Iran | Extinct | Access |
Equus hemionus blanfordi | (Pocock, 1947) | - | ? | Afghanistan & Pakistan | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Equus hemionus castaneus | Lydekker, 1904 | Xinjiang kulan, dzigettai | ? | Mongolia | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus hemionus finschi | Matschie in Futterer, 1911 | - | ? | Kazakhstan | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Equus hemionus hemippus | I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1855 | Syrian wild ass, Syrian onager, Assyrian onager, Hemippe, Achdari | 1927-1928 | Arabian Peninsula to Syria | Extinct | Access |
Equus hydruntinus | Regàlia, 1907 | European wild ass, Encebra, Steppe ass, Otrantine ass, etc. | Holocene | Europe | Extinct | Access |
Equus lambei | Hay, 1917 | Yukon horse, Yukon wild horse | c.8,000 BC | North America | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus laurentius | Hay, 1913 | - | ? | Kansas, USA | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Equus lenensis | Russanov, 1968 | Lena horse, Chersky horse | c.4,600 BP | Russia | Extinct? | Access |
Equus mauritanicus | Pomel, 1897 | - | Holocene | Algeria | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus melkiensis | Bagtache, Hadjouis & Eisenmann, 1984 | - | Late Pleistocene | Algeria & Morocco | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus mexicanus | Hibbard, 1955 | - | Late Pleistocene | Mexico | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus midlandensis | Quinn, 1957 | - | Late Pleistocene? | New Mexico, USA | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Equus namadicus | Falconer & Cautley, 1849 | - | Middle Pleistocene? | India | Extinct | Access |
Equus neogaeus | Lund, 1840 | - | Late Pleistocene or Holocene | Brazil | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus niobrarensis | Hay, 1913 | Niobrara horse | Late Pleistocene | USA | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus occidentalis | Leidy, 1865 | Western horse | Late Pleistocene | USA | Invalid? | Access |
Equus ovodovi | Eisenmann & Sergej, 2011 | Ovodov horse | Late Pleistocene | Siberia | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus pacificus | Leidy, 1868 | - | Late Pleistocene? | Canada & USA | Invalid? | Access |
Equus parastylidens | Mooser, 1959 | - | Late Pleistocene? | South America | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus pseudaltidens | Hulbert, 1995 | Late Pleistocene | Texas, USA | Extinct | Access | |
Equus quagga burchelli | Gray, 1824 | Burchell's zebra, Southern Burchell's zebra | - | South Africa | Rediscovered | Access |
Equus quagga quagga | Boddaert, 1785 | Quagga, kwagga (Afrikaans), iqwara (Xhosa) | 12 August 1883 | South Africa | Extinct | Access |
Equus santaeelenae | Spillmann, 1938 | - | Late Pleistocene | Peru | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus scotti | Gidley, 1900 | Scott's horse | Late Pleistocene | USA | Invalid? | Access |
Equus semiplicatus | Cope, 1893 | Stiltlegged horse | Late Pleistocene or Holocene | Texas, USA | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus sylvestris | von den Brincken, 1826 | - | ? | Europe | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Equus tau | Owen, 1869 | Late Pleistocene | Mexico | Extinct | Access | |
Equus valeriani | Gromova, 1946 | Late Pleistocene | Uzbekistan | Extinct | Access | |
Equus verae |
Sher, 1971 | Late Pleistocene | Siberia, Russia and Yukon, Canada | Extinct | Access | |
Equus yunnanensis | Colbert, 1940 | Late Pleistocene | China & Myanmar (=Burma) | Extinct | Access | |
Equus sp. A | - | - | Late Pleistocene | New Mexico, USA | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus sp. nov. 'small stilt-legged horse' | - | - | Late Pleistocene | USA | Extinct if valid | Access |
Equus sp. nov. 'small stout-limbed horse'
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- | - | Late Pleistocene | USA | Extinct if valid | Access |
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Haringtonhippus francisci | (Hay, 1915) | Late Pleistocene | USA | Extinct | Access | |
Hippidion devillei | Gervais, 1855 | - | Late Pleistocene | Argentina & Bolivia | Extinct if valid | Access |
Hippidion principale | Lund, 1846 | - | Late Pleistocene | Argentina & Bolivia | Extinct if valid | Access |
Hippidion saldiasi | Roth, 1899 | - | Late Pleistocene | Argentina & Chile | Extinct if valid | Access |
Onager oviedoi | Mooser, 1959 | - | Late Pleistocene | Americas | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
1 The taxonomy of fossil horses (Equus sp.) is still largely unresolved. Many species have been described, and which are valid is unclear. Some are missing from this list.
Family: Rhinocerotidae (Rhinoceroses)
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Ceratotherium mauritanicum | Pomel, 1888 | - | Holocene? | Africa | Extinct | Access |
Ceratotherium simum cottoni | Lydekker, 1908 | Northern white rhino(ceros), Nile rhino(ceros), Square-lipped rhino(ceros), Northern square-lipped rhino(ceros), Cotton’s white rhino(ceros), Cross's rhino(ceros) | Functionally extinct | Africa (Central African Republic, DR Congo, Sudan, Uganda) | Extinct in the wild (functionally extinct) | Access |
Coelodonta antiquitatis antiquitatis | Blumenbach, 1799 | Woolly rhino(ceros) | Late Pleistocene | Eurasia | Extinct | Access |
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis eugenei | Sody, 1946 | - | Holocene | Sumatra, Indonesia | Extinct | Access |
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis lasiotis | Buckland, 1872 | Northern Sumatran rhinoceros, Northern hairy rhinoceros, Chittagong rhinoceros | 1900 or later | mainland Asia | Missing | Access |
Diceros bicornis bicornis | (Linnaeus, 1758) | Southern black rhino(ceros), South-western black rhino(ceros), Cape rhino(ceros) | c.1800-1850 | Western Cape Province, South Africa | Extinct | Access |
Diceros bicornis brucii | Lesson, 1842 | North-eastern black rhino(ceros) | 1900's? | Ethiopia | Extinct? | Access |
Diceros bicornis chobiensis | Zukowsky, 1965 | Chobe black rhino(ceros) | ? | Africa | Extinct? | Access |
Diceros bicornis ladoensis | Groves, 1967 | Uganda black rhino(ceros) | ? | Sudan (South Sudan?) & Uganda | Extinct? | Access |
Diceros bicornis longipes | Zukowsky, 1949 | Western black rhino(ceros) | 2012 | West Africa | Missing | Access |
Elasmotherium sibiricum | Fisher von Valdgeim, 1808 | Forehead-crested rhinoceros | 26,038 ± 356 yBP | Eurasia | Extinct | Access |
Rhinoceros kagavena | Deraniyagala, 1956 | Sri Lankan rhino(ceros) | Late Pleistocene? | Sri Lanka | Extinct | Access |
Rhinoceros philippinensis | von Koenig(s)wald, 1956 | Philippine rhinoceros | Late Pleistocene | Luzon, Philippines | Extinct | Access |
Rhinoceros sinensis | Owen, 1870 | Chinese rhino(ceros) | c. 66,000 BC | China | Extinct | Access |
Rhinoceros sinhaleyus | Deraniyagala, 1936 | Sri Lankan rhinoceros | Late Pleistocene | Sri Lanka | Extinct | Access |
Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus | Heude, 1892 | Vietnamese Javan rhino(ceros) | 29 April 2010 | Cambodia, Laos, Thailand (eastern) & Vietnam | Missing | Access |
Rhinoceros sondaicus inermis | Lesson, 1838 | Indian Javan rhinoceros | pre-1925 | Northeastern India, Bangladesh and Myanmar | Extinct | Access |
Stephanorhinus hemitoechus | Falconer, 1859 | Narrow-nosed rhinoceros | Late Pleistocene | Europe | Extinct | Access |
Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis | Toula, 1902 | - | Late Pleistocene | Europe | Extinct | Access |
Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis | Jäger, 1839 | Merck's rhinoceros | Late Pleistocene | Eurasia | Extinct | Access |
Family: Tapiridae (Tapirs)
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Megatapirus augustus | Matthew & Granger, 1923 | Giant tapir | Holocene | China to Laos | Extinct | Access |
Tapirus californicus | Merriam, 1912 | California tapir | Late Pleistocene-Holocene border | California, USA | Extinct | Access |
Tapirus copei | Simpson, 1945 | Cope's tapir | Middle Pleistocene? | USA | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Tapirus cristatellus | Winge, 1906 | - | Late Pleistocene or Holocene | Minas Gerais State, Brazil | Extinct | Access |
Tapirus haysii | Leidy, 1860 | - | Late Pleistocene | Florida, USA | Extinct | Access |
Tapirus merriami | Frick, 1921 | Merriam's tapir | Late Pleistocene | USA | Extinct | Access |
Tapirus mesopotamicus | Ferrero & Noriega, 2007 | - | Late Pleistocene | Argentina | Extinct | Access |
Tapirus rondoniensis | Winge, 1906 | Rondonia tapir | Late Pleistocene | Brazil | Extinct | Access |
Tapirus veroensis | Sellards, 1918 | Vero tapir | Late Pleistocene | Americas | Extinct | Access |