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Three subspecies of the black rhinoceros, the Syrian wild ass subspecies of the onager, and the tarpan subspecies of the wild horse have gone extinct in the last 200 years. The eighteen extant species of Perissodactyla are divided into two suborders: Ceratomorpha, containing the families Rhinocerotidae and Tapiridae , and Hippomorpha ...
Perissodactyla (/ p ə ˌ r ɪ s oʊ ˈ d æ k t ɪ l ə /, from Ancient Greek περισσός, perissós 'odd' and δάκτυλος, dáktylos 'finger, toe' [3]), or odd-toed ungulates, is an order of ungulates.
Panperissodactyla ("all perissodactyls", alternatively spelled Pan-Perissodactyla [2]) is a clade of ungulates containing living order Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and all extinct ungulates more closely related to Perissodactyla than to Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates).
Chilotherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotids endemic to Eurasia during the Miocene through Pliocene living for 13.7—3.4 mya, ... (Perissodactyla ...
Odd-toed ungulates (Perissodactyla) Primates ... List of birds by population Mammal classification List of recently extinct mammals
Toggle Perissodactyla (Odd-toed ungulates) subsection. ... (Perching Birds) subsection. 8.1 ... Most went extinct during the Late Pleistocene extinctions while some ...
Brontotheriidae is a family of extinct mammals belonging to the order Perissodactyla, the order that includes horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs.Superficially, they looked rather like rhinos with some developing bony nose horns, and were some of the earliest mammals to have evolved large body sizes of several tonnes.
Tapirs were formerly present across North America, but became extinct in the region at the end of the Late Pleistocene, around 12,000 years ago. Name The term tapir comes from the Portuguese-language words tapir , tapira , which themselves trace their origins back to Old Tupi , specifically the term tapi'ira code: tpw is deprecated . [ 11 ]