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Tapirus simpsoni Temporal range: Pliocene | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
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]