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Common name Scientific name Distribution Baird's tapir ... The closest extant relatives of the tapirs are the other odd-toed ungulates, which include horses, ...
The youngest tapir in Europe, Tapirus arvernensis became extinct at the end of the Pliocene, around 2.6 million years ago. [7] Tapirus dispersed into South America during the Early Pleistocene as part of the Great American Interchange , around 2.6-1 million years ago.
This tapir possesses a single, narrow, low and gently inclined sagittal crest that rises posteriorly from the toothrow. [6] T. kabomani skulls also lack both a nasal septum and dorsal maxillary flanges. [6] The skull possesses a meatal diverticulum fossa that is shallower and less dorsally extended than those of the other four extant species of ...
Tapiroidea is a superfamily of perissodactyls which includes the modern tapirs and their extinct relatives. Taxonomically, they are placed in suborder Ceratomorpha along with the rhino superfamily, Rhinocerotoidea.The first members of Tapiroidea appeared during the Early Eocene, 55 million years ago, and were present in North America and Asia during the Eocene.
Perissodactyla is an order of placental mammals composed of odd-toed ungulates – hooved animals which bear weight on one or three of their five toes with the other toes either present, absent, vestigial, or pointing backwards. Members of this order are called perissodactyls, and include rhinoceroses, tapirs, and horses.
The Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii), also known as the Central American tapir, is a species of tapir native to Mexico, Central America, and northwestern South America. [4] It is the largest of the three species of tapir native to the Americas, as well as the largest native land mammal in both Central and South America.
The scientific name Tapirus indicus was proposed by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1819 who referred to a tapir described by Pierre-Médard Diard. [2] Tapirus indicus brevetianus was coined by a Dutch zoologist in 1926 who described a black Malayan tapir from Sumatra that had been sent to Rotterdam Zoo in the early 1920s.
Mo (貘) was the Chinese name for the giant panda from the 3rd century BCE to the 19th century CE. In 1824, the French sinologist Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat identified the mo as the black-and-white Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus).