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Map of North America. This is a list of North American animals 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] Recently extinct animals in the West Indies and Hawaii are in their own respective lists.
Overkill proponents, however, say this is due to the fast extinction process in North America and the low probability of animals with signs of butchery to be preserved. [164] The majority of North American taxa have too sparse a fossil record to accurately assess the frequency of human hunting of them. [10]
Extinct animals of the United States (1 C, 136 P) Pages in category "Extinct animals of North America" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
Prehistoric mammals of North America (4 C, 142 P) Pages in category "Extinct mammals of North America" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total.
The indigenous peoples of North America used woolly mammoth ivory and bone for tools and art. [171] As in Siberia, North American natives had "myths of observation" explaining the remains of woolly mammoths and other elephants; the Bering Strait Inupiat believed the bones came from burrowing creatures, while other peoples associated them with ...
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 ...