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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;
Dinofelis is an extinct genus of machairodontine (sabre-toothed cat), usually classified in the tribe Metailurini.It was widespread in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America from 5 million to about 1.2 million years ago (early Pliocene to early Pleistocene).
Metridiochoerus was a large animal, 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in length, resembling a giant warthog. It had two large pairs of tusks which were pointed sideways and curved upwards. [ 4 ] The teeth, especially the third molars, become increasingly high crowned ( hypsodont ) in later species.
Miracinonyx (colloquially known as the "American cheetah") is an extinct genus of felids belonging to the subfamily Felinae that was endemic to North America from the Pleistocene epoch (about 2.5 million to 16,000 years ago) and morphologically similar to the modern cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), although its apparent similar ecological niches have been considered questionable due to anatomical ...
How the animals at the site died is unknown, but there is no evidence that humans were involved. The current theory is that approximately 68,000 years ago, at least 19 mammoths from a nursery herd were trapped in a steep-sided channel during a flash flood and drowned and/or were buried by mud. A camel was also trapped and killed during this event.
Extirpated from the wild in the early 1970s and reintroduced in 1998. [30] Texas red wolf: Canis rufus rufus: Central Texas to southern Louisiana Extinct in the wild by 1980 and introduced (in lieu of the extinct subspecies) to eastern North Carolina in 1987. The species is threatened by human persecution and hybridization with coyotes. [31]
However an epizootic outbreak in 1919 reduced the animals to just 50, and the last individuals were poached in 1927. [62] The only captive animal, a male, lived in Germany between 1908 and 1925 and bred with females of the lowland wisent subspecies. As a result, several wisent populations carry its genes today.
Exceptionally large extinct rodents Genus Species Notes Location Approx. max. weight Stratigraphy Image Castor: C. californicus: An extinct beaver species