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The proportion of extinct large mammal species (more than or equal to 10 kg (22 lb)) in each country during the last 132,000 years, only counting extinctions earlier than 1000 years BP. The Late Pleistocene saw the extinction of many mammals weighing more than 40 kilograms (88 lb), including around 80% of mammals over 1 tonne.
The Late Pleistocene was the time when most animals evolved to resemble modern-day animals and they managed to live through the Late mid-Pleistocene since there were no extinction events of megafauna until the end of the Late Pleistocene. [13] Some species which went extinct at the end of the Late Pleistocene in Southern Africa are the giant ...
Extinct in the late Pleistocene or early Holocene. [2] Capromys pilorides lewisi: Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman, Cayman Islands Most recently dated in Grand Cayman to 1439-1643 and in Cayman Brac to 1440–1624. A 1585 reference by Francis Drake to "coneys" and cat-sized "little beasts" on the islands could refer to this animal. [10]
This is a list of Ice Age species preserved as permafrost mummies. It includes all known species that have had their tissues partially preserved within the permafrost layer of the Arctic and Subarctic. Most went extinct during the Late Pleistocene extinctions while some are still extant today. They have been listed to the most specific known ...
Presumed extinct as a consequence of the disappearance of the megafauna. [52] Winge's vulture [52] Wingegyps cartellei: Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil Known from the late Pleistocene or early Holocene of Lagoa Santa. [53]
Restoration of Palaeolama (below the gomphothere's tusks) and other mammals of Late Pleistocene Chile. Fossil evidence suggests Palaeolama was primarily adapted to low-temperate, arid climates and preferred open, forested, and high-altitude mountainous regions.
Palaeoloxodon namadicus is an extinct species of prehistoric elephant known from the Middle Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene of the Indian subcontinent, and possibly also elsewhere in Asia. The species grew larger than any living elephant, and some authors have suggested it to have been the largest known land mammal based on extrapolation from ...
While often suggested to have gone extinct during the Late Pleistocene, most specimens of the species are poorly dated and dating of specimens from Kenya suggests that it went extinct there around 130,000 years ago, at the end of the Middle Pleistocene. [24] Most Eurasian species of Palaeoloxodon became extinct towards the end of the Last ...