Biology:Tapirus cristatellus

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Short description: Extinct species of mammal

Tapirus cristatellus
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Tapiridae
Genus: Tapirus
Species:
T. cristatellus
Binomial name
Tapirus cristatellus
H. Winge, 1906

Tapirus cristatellus is an extinct species of tapir from the Pleistocene of South America. Remains are known from Brazil , specifically the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia.[1]

The now extinct tapirs of Pleistocene North America may have been derived from T. cristatellus.[2]

References

  1. Holanda, E.C.; Rincón, A.D. (2012). "Tapirs from the Pleistocene of Venezuela". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (3): 463-473. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0001. https://bioone.org/journals/acta-palaeontologica-polonica/volume-57/issue-3/app.2011.0001/Tapirs-from-the-Pleistocene-of-Venezuela/10.4202/app.2011.0001.full. 
  2. Holanda, E.C.; Ferrero, B.S. (2012). "Reappraisal of the Genus Tapirus (Perissodactyla, Tapiridae): Systematics and Phylogenetic Affinities of the South American Tapirs". Journal of Mammalian Evolution 20: 33–44. doi:10.1007/s10914-012-9196-z. 

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