List of Extinct Animals of North America - Mammals

Mammals

Prehistoric extinctions (beginning of the Holocene to 1500 CE)

  • Amblyrhiza inundata, Northern Lesser Antilles, 11000 BCE.
  • American cheetahs Miracinonyx trumani and Miracinonyx inexpectatus, 11000 BCE.
  • American lion Panthera leo atrox, USA, Canada and Mexico, 10000 BCE
  • American mastodon Mammut americanum, USA and Canada, 4080 BCE
  • American mountain deer Odocoileus lucasi USA, 10000 BCE.
  • Arctodus simus, North America, 8000 BCE.
  • Aztlanolagus agilis, southeastern Arizona to central Texas and from central Colorado to southern Chihuahua, 8000 BCE.
  • Bison antiquus North America, 10000 BCE
  • Bison priscus Alaska, Yukon, 11000 BCE
  • Bison occidentalis Alaska to Minnesota, 5000 BCE
  • Bootherium bombifrons, North America, 9000 BCE.
  • Camelops sp., USA and Mexico, 8000 BCE.
  • Capromeryx, USA and Mexico, 11000 BCE.
  • Caribbean ground sloths, ssp. Caribbean islands, 5000 BCE.
  • Castoroides leiseyorum, Florida, USA, 11000 BCE.
  • Castoroides ohioensis, Canada, USA,, 11000 BCE.
  • Clidomys osborni, Jamaica, 11000 BCE.
  • Columbian mammoth Mammuthus columbi, USA and Mexico, 5800 BCE.
  • Cuon texanus, Texas, 10000 BC.
  • Dasypus bellus, USA, Mexico, South America, 8000 BCE.
  • Dire wolf Canis dirus, North America, 8000 BCE.
  • Doedicurus clavicaudatus Southern North America and South America, 10000 BC.
  • Elasmodontomys obliquus, Puerto Rico, 11000 BCE.
  • Equus conversidens, USA and Mexico, 11000 BCE.
  • Equus lambei, USA and Canada, 11000 BCE.
  • Equus occidentalis, USA, 10000 BCE.
  • Glyptotherium ssp. Central North America through Central America,
  • Harrington's mountain goat Oreamnos harringtoni, USA, 12000 10000 BCE.
  • Holmesina septentrionalis, USA, 8000 BCE
  • Jefferson's ground sloth Megalonyx jeffersonii, USA and Canada, 10000-9000BCE.
  • Megatherium americanum, Southern Texas, Mexico, and South america
  • Mylohyus sp., ssp. North America, 9,000 BCE.
  • Neochoerus aesopi Southeast USA to Panama, 11000 BCE.
  • Neochoerus pinckneyi, USA and Mexico, 11000 BCE.
  • Panthera onca augusta, North America, 10000 BCE.
  • Panamerican ground sloth Eremotherium laurillardi, USA, Mexico, 11000 BCE.
  • Paramylodon harlani, North America, 11000 BCE.
  • Platygonus sp., North America, 11000 BCE.
  • Pygmy mammoth Mammuthus exilis, Channel Islands of California, USA, 10800-11300 BCE.
  • Quemisia gravis, Hispaniola, 11000 BCE.
  • Saber-tooth cats Smilodon fatalis and Smilodon populator, North and South America, 8000 BCE.
  • Saiga antelope Saiga tatarica, USA and Canada, 11000 BCE.
  • Scimitar cats Homotherium Serum, USA, Canada, Mexico, 10000 BCE
  • Shasta ground sloth Nothrotheriops, spp. USA, 11000 BCE.
  • Shuler's pronghorn Tetrameryx shuleri 11000 BCE.
  • Scott's horse Equus scotti, USA and Mexico, 11000 BCE.
  • Shrub-ox Euceratherium collinum 9500 BCE
  • Soergel's ox Soergelia mayfield 9500 BCE
  • Stag-moose Cervalces scotti, USA and Canada, 12000 BCE.
  • Stilt-legged llama Hemiauchenia ssp., USA and Mexico, 11000 BCE.
  • Stilt-legged horse "Equus francisci", North America, 10000 BCE.
  • Stockoceros conklingi Southwestern North America 11000 BCE.
  • Stout-legged llama Palaeolama ssp., USA, 11000 BCE
  • Tapirus californicus USA, 240,000 BCE.
  • Tapirus copei from Pennsylvania to Florida, 11000 BCE.
  • Tapirus merriami USA, 240,000 BCE.
  • Tapirus veroensis Southeastern North America, 11000 BCE.
  • Tremarctos floridanus, Florida, 8000 BCE.
  • Ursus maritimus tyrannus, Arctic region.
  • Woolly mammoth Mammuthus primigenius, Northern USA, 2000 BCE.
  • Xaymaca fulvopulvis, Jamaica, 11000 BCE.

Recent extinctions (1500 CE to present)

  • Antillean Cave Rat
  • Insular Cave Rat Heteropsomys insulans, 1600s
  • Corozal Rat
  • Eastern Cougar Puma concolor couguar, 2011
  • Puerto Rican Shrew Nesophontes edithae. 1600s
  • Puerto Rican Long-nosed Bat Monophyllus frater
  • Puerto Rican Long-tongued Bat
  • Lesser Puerto Rican Ground Sloth
  • Sherman's Pocket Gopher
  • Goff's Pocket Gopher Geomys pinetis goffi
  • Tacoma Pocket Gopher Thomomys mazama tacomensis
  • Giant Deer Mouse
  • Pallid Beach Mouse Peromyscus polionotus decoloratus, 1959
  • Gull Island Vole Microtus pennsylvanicus nesophilus, 1897
  • Louisiana Vole
  • Puerto Rican Hutia Isolobodon portoricensis
  • Puerto Rican Paca
  • Lesser Puerto Rican Agouti
  • Greater Puerto Rican Agouti
  • Sea Mink Mustela macrodon, 1860
  • Caribbean Monk Seal Monachus tropicalis, 1952
  • Steller's Sea Cow Hydrodamalis gigas, 1768
  • Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit subpopulation of Pygmy Rabbit
  • Arizona Wapiti
  • Colorado Hog-nosed Skunk
  • Smith Island Cottontail
  • Allen's Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
  • Banks Island Wolf Canis lupus bernardi, 1920
  • Cascade Mountains Wolf Canis lupus fuscus, 1940
  • Antillean Giant Rice Rat
  • Eastern Elk Cervus canadensis canadiensis, 1887
  • Merriam's Elk Cervus canadensis merriami, 1913
  • Arizona Jaguar Panthera onca arizonensis, 1905
  • Tule Shrew Sorex ornatus juncensis, 1905

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