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The following are lists of prehistoric animals: By type. Land and avian animals. List of prehistoric amphibian genera; List of prehistoric mammals;
The coelacanths were thought to have gone extinct , until a living specimen belonging to the order was discovered in 1938.. A living fossil is a deprecated term for an extant taxon that phenotypically resembles related species known only from the fossil record.
This is a list of North 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] Recently extinct animals in the West Indies and Hawaii are in their own respective lists.
About 280 million years ago, a large creature built somewhat like a salamander but with frightful fangs prowled the swamps and lakes of what is now Namibia, ambushing prey as a top predator in a ...
Ca. 37,000-year-old cub of Homotherium latidens found near the Badyarikha River, Siberia.. This is a list of Ice Age species preserved as permafrost mummies during the Late Pleistocene.
Another huge animal of this group was Uintatherium, with skull length of 76 cm (30 in), 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) tall at the shoulder, [151] 4 m (13 ft) in length and 2.25 t (2.48 short tons), the size of a rhinoceros. [152] Despite their large size, Eobasileus as well as Uintatherium had a very small brain. [151] [152]
With only a handful of species surviving today, the Nautiloids flourished during the early Paleozoic era, from the Late Cambrian, where they constituted the main predatory animals. [71] Haikouichthys, a jawless fish, is popularized as one of the earliest fishes and probably a basal chordate or a basal craniate. [72]
Although present at the tar pits, material assigned to the modern elk has not been dated. This leaves it ambiguous whether or not it coexisted with some of the well known La Brea animals such as the short-faced bear and American lion. † Shrub-ox [11] † Euceratherium cf. collinum: An extinct relative of the modern muskox. Findings from ...