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Near threatened (NT): 345 species. Least concern (LC): 3,306 species. Data deficient (DD): 872 species. Mammalian species (IUCN, 2020-1) 5850 extant species have been evaluated. 4978 of those are fully assessed [a] 3651 are not threatened at present [b] 1244 to 2116 are threatened [c] 81 to 83 are extinct or extinct in the wild:
Volaticotherium antiquum (meaning "ancient gliding beast") is an extinct, gliding, insectivorous mammal that lived in Asia during the Jurassic period, around 164 mya. It is the only member of the genus Volaticotherium. The discovery of Volaticotherium provided the earliest-known record of a gliding mammal (70 million years older than the next ...
The proportion of extinct large mammal species (more than or equal to 10 kg (22 lb)) in each country during the last 132,000 years, only counting extinctions earlier than 1000 years BP The Late Pleistocene saw the extinction of many mammals weighing more than 40 kilograms (88 lb), including around 80% of mammals over 1 tonne.
Desmostylia. The Desmostylia (from Greek δεσμά desma, "bundle", and στῦλος stylos, "pillar") [1] are an extinct order of aquatic mammals native to the North Pacific from the early Oligocene (Rupelian) to the late Miocene (Tortonian) (30.8 to 7.25 million years ago). Desmostylians are the only known extinct order of marine mammals.
As of 2022, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed 40 animal species as extinct in the wild. [1] That is approximately 0.04% of all evaluated animal species. The IUCN also lists five animal subspecies as extinct in the wild. This is a complete list of wild animal species and subspecies listed as extinct by the IUCN.
Dung, Giao, Chinh, Tuoc, Arctander & MacKinnon, 1993. Range in Vietnam and Laos. The saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), also called spindlehorn, Asian unicorn, or infrequently, Vu Quang bovid, is one of the world's rarest large mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine native to the Annamite Range in Vietnam and Laos.
Hyaenodon. Hyaenodon (" hyena -tooth") is an extinct genus of carnivorous placental mammals from extinct tribe Hyaenodontini within extinct subfamily Hyaenodontinae (in extinct family Hyaenodontidae), [19] that lived in Eurasia and North America from the middle Eocene, throughout the Oligocene, to the early Miocene.
Category:Extinct mammals. Category. : Extinct mammals. Mammals that are now extinct. Mammals that became extinct before 1500 should be categorised as Category:Prehistoric mammals . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Extinct Mammalia.