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This is a list of European species 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. This list includes the European continent and its surrounding islands. All large islands in the Mediterranean Sea are ...
Mesozoic mammals of Europe (2 C) N. ... Pages in category "Prehistoric mammals of Europe" The following 112 pages are in this category, out of 112 total.
Alpine long-eared bat, Plecotus macrobullarisNT (mountains of southern Europe) Sardinian long-eared bat, Plecotus sardusCR (Sardinia) Canary long-eared bat, Plecotus teneriffaeCR (Canary Islands in Africa - Spain) and: [ n 1 ] Gaisler's long-eared bat, Plecotus gaisleri[ 2 ]EN (Malta, Italy) Barbastelle, Barbastella barbastellusVU.
Megaloceros. Megaloceros (from Greek: μεγαλοςmegalos + κεραςkeras, literally "Great Horn"; see also Lister (1987)) is an extinct genus of deer whose members lived throughout Eurasia from the Pleistocene to the early Holocene. The type and only undisputed member of the genus, Megaloceros giganteus, vernacularly known as the "Irish ...
Synonyms. [1] Aculeodens Weitzel, 1949. Dormaalius Quinet, 1964. Macrocranion is a genus of extinct mammal from the Eocene epoch of Europe and North America. [2] Exceptional fossils have has been found in the Messel Pit of Germany. [3] Macrocranion species are often described as forest-floor predators, about the size of small squirrels but with ...
Binomial name. †Henkelotherium guimarotae. Krebs, 1991. Henkelotherium is an extinct genus of dryolestidan mammal from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Camadas de Guimarota, in Portugal. [1] Unlike many other Jurassic mammals, it is known from a largely complete skeleton, and is thought to have had an arboreal lifestyle.
Synonyms [5] C. l. brevis Kuzmina and Sablin, 1994[3] C. l. maximus Boudadi-Maligne, 2012[4] The cave wolf (Canis lupus spelaeus) is an extinct glacial mammoth steppe -adapted white wolf that lived during the Middle Pleistocene to the Late Pleistocene. It inhabited Europe, where its remains have been found in many caves.
An approximate timescale of the Cenozoic. Axis scale: millions of years ago. The European Land Mammal Mega Zones (abbreviation: ELMMZ, more commonly known as European land mammal ages or ELMA) are zones in rock layers that have a specific assemblage of fossils (biozones) based on occurrences of fossil assemblages of European land mammals.