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[8] Ochlockonee arcmussel: Alasmidonta wrightiana: Ochlockonee River, Florida Extinct since the 1930s due to habitat fragmentation or degradation. [8] Arc-form pearly mussel: Epioblasma arcaeformis: Cumberland and Tennessee River systems [185] Extinct since the 1940s due to loss of all habitat through impoundment or channelization. [8] Angled ...
The word Holocene was formed from two Ancient Greek words. Hólos is the Greek word for "whole". "Cene" comes from the Greek word kainós (καινός), meaning "new". The concept is that this epoch is "entirely new". [7] [8] [9] The suffix '-cene' is used for all the seven epochs of the Cenozoic Era.
This category contains events which happened in the Holocene, a division of the geologic time scale. See geologic time scale for information about its divisions and how they relate to each other. The main article for this category is Holocene .
The Holocene is considered to have started with the Holocene glacial retreat around 11650 years Before Present (c. 9700 BC). It is characterized by a general trend towards global warming , the expansion of anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ) to all emerged land masses, the appearance of agriculture and animal husbandry , and a reduction ...
This is a list of South American animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [A] and continues to the present day. [1] The list includes animal extinctions in the Galápagos, Falklands, and other islands near the continent.
Acinonyx is a genus within the Felidae family. [1] The only living species of the genus, the cheetah (A. jubatus), lives in open grasslands of Africa and Asia. [2]Several fossil remains of cheetah-like cats were excavated that date to the late Pliocene and Middle Pleistocene. [3]
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures North African elephant: Loxodonta africana pharaoensis: North Africa: Neolithic rock art indicates that the African bush elephant inhabited much of the Sahara desert and North Africa at the beginning of the Holocene, and Ancient authors wrote that it was present in the Atlas Mountains, the Red Sea coast, and Nubia until the first few ...
Overall, it was probably around 4.75 m (15.6 ft) in length and stood about 2.3 m (7.5 ft) or up to 2.5 m (8.2 ft) [6] tall at the withers. [7] With an estimated weight of 1,250 kg (2,760 lb) [ 8 ] [ 9 ] to 2,000 kg (4,400 lb), [ 10 ] B. latifrons was one of the largest ruminants ever, rivaled in mass only by the modern giraffe and the ...