Tapirus simpsoni

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Tapirus simpsoni
Temporal range: Pliocene
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Tapiridae
Genus: Tapirus
Species:
T. simpsoni
Binomial name
Tapirus simpsoni
Schultz et al., 1975

Tapirus simpsoni is an extinct species of tapir that lived in Nebraska during the Pliocene epoch.

Tapirus simpsoni was described in 1975 together with Tapirus johnsoni , and was larger than it. [1] Late Miocene fossils from Florida were considered to have belonged to T. simpsoni until 2005, when they were reclassified as belonging to a new species, Tapirus webbi . [2]

References

  1. Schultz, C.B.; Martin, L.D.; Corner, R.G. (1975). "Part 1: Middle and Late Cenozoic Tapirs from Nebraska". Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum. Cenozoic Mammals from the Central Great Plains. 10 (1): 1–21. ISSN   0093-6812 . Retrieved 25 August 2025.
  2. Hulbert Jr., Richard C. (12 May 2015) [Originally published 14 October 2012]. "Tapirus webbi". Florida Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 25 August 2025.