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Map of Europe. 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.
The following list is incomplete by necessity, since the majority of extinctions are thought to be undocumented, and for many others there isn't a definitive, widely accepted last, or most recent record. According to the species-area theory, the present rate of extinction may be up to 140,000 species per year. [1]
Pages in category "Extinct animals of Europe" ... List of extinct animals of the British Isles; ... List of Macaronesian animals extinct in the Holocene; M.
Holocene extinctions, biological taxa that went extinct during the current geological/paleobiological Holocene epoch of the Quaternary Period. Extinct plant/flora and animal/fauna species of the last 12,000 years (occurring from ~10,000 BCE to the present day.
Admiralty chart of the West Indies, with Bermuda northwest. This is a list of Antillian and Bermudan 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]
List of Macaronesian animals extinct in the Holocene; List of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha animals extinct in the Holocene; List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene; List of European species extinct in the Holocene. List of extinct animals of the British Isles; List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene. List of ...
Only Pleistocene species, and specifically those extinct since the Ipswichian/Eemian interglacial (c. 130,000 - c. 115,000 before present (BP)), Devensian glaciation (c. 115,000 – c. 11,700 BP) or into the Holocene (c. 11,700 BP - present), are included (that is, the assemblage that can be approximately considered the 'modern' fauna which ...
List of Hawaiian animals extinct in the Holocene; List of Macaronesian animals extinct in the Holocene; List of Madagascar and Indian Ocean Island animals extinct in the Holocene; List of New Zealand species extinct in the Holocene; List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene; List of Oceanian species extinct in the Holocene; List of ...