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'''''Tapirus haysii''''',commonly known as '''Cope's tapir''',<ref name=Cope1>{{cite website|url=https://recentlyextinctspecies.com/perissodactyla-odd-toed-ungulates/tapirus-copei-cope-s-tapir|title=Tapirus copei Simpson, 1945: Cope's tapir|website=The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database|access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> is an [[extinct]] species of [[tapir]] that inhabited [[North America]] during the early to middle [[Pleistocene Epoch]] (~2.5–1 Ma).<ref name="T. haysii">{{cite web |title=Tapirus haysii |url=https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/florida-vertebrate-fossils/species/tapirus-haysii |accessdate=12 March 2017 |website=Florida Museum of Natural History}}</ref> The fossil remains of two juvenile ''T. haysii'' were collected in [[Hillsborough County, Florida|Hillsborough County]], Florida on August 31, 1963.<ref name="T. copei">{{Cite web|url=http://collections.si.edu/search/record/nmnhpaleobiology_3447081|title = Tapirus copei Simpson | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution}}</ref> It was the second largest North American tapir; the first being ''[[Tapirus merriami|T. merriami]]''.<ref name = pleis>{{cite book|last=Kurtén|first=Björn|title=Pleistocene Mammals of North America|isbn=0231516967|page=293|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f8pviaxPIKEC&q=Tapirus+copei&pg=PA293}}</ref> |
'''''Tapirus haysii''''', commonly known as '''Cope's tapir''',<ref name=Cope1>{{cite website|url=https://recentlyextinctspecies.com/perissodactyla-odd-toed-ungulates/tapirus-copei-cope-s-tapir|title=Tapirus copei Simpson, 1945: Cope's tapir|website=The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database|access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> is an [[extinct]] species of [[tapir]] that inhabited [[North America]] during the early to middle [[Pleistocene Epoch]] (~2.5–1 Ma).<ref name="T. haysii">{{cite web |title=Tapirus haysii |url=https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/florida-vertebrate-fossils/species/tapirus-haysii |accessdate=12 March 2017 |website=Florida Museum of Natural History}}</ref> The fossil remains of two juvenile ''T. haysii'' were collected in [[Hillsborough County, Florida|Hillsborough County]], Florida on August 31, 1963.<ref name="T. copei">{{Cite web|url=http://collections.si.edu/search/record/nmnhpaleobiology_3447081|title = Tapirus copei Simpson | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution}}</ref> It was the second largest North American tapir; the first being ''[[Tapirus merriami|T. merriami]]''.<ref name = pleis>{{cite book|last=Kurtén|first=Björn|title=Pleistocene Mammals of North America|isbn=0231516967|page=293|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f8pviaxPIKEC&q=Tapirus+copei&pg=PA293}}</ref> |
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== Taxonomy == |
== Taxonomy == |
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| Tapirus haysii Temporal range: Early Pleistocene–Middle Pleistocene
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| A Copes' tapir skull held at the Natural History Museum in Karlsruhe, Germany | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Tapiridae |
| Genus: | Tapirus |
| Species: | †T. haysii
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| †Tapirus haysii Leidy 1859[1]
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Tapirus haysii, commonly known as Cope's tapir,[3] is an extinct species of tapir that inhabited North America during the early to middle Pleistocene Epoch (~2.5–1 Ma).[1] The fossil remains of two juvenile T. haysii were collected in Hillsborough County, Florida on August 31, 1963.[2] It was the second largest North American tapir; the first being T. merriami.[4]
Taxonomy
Taprirus haysii is placed in the subgenus Helicotapirus, which also includes Tapirus veroensis and Tapirus lundeliusi.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Tapirus haysii". Florida Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ a b "Tapirus copei Simpson | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution".
- ^ "Tapirus copei Simpson, 1945: Cope's tapir". The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
- ^ Kurtén, Björn. Pleistocene Mammals of North America. p. 293. ISBN 0231516967.
- ^ Hulbert, Richard Jr. (30 September 2010). "A new early Pleistocene tapir (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) from Florida, with a review of Blancan tapirs from the state" (PDF). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. 49 (3): 67–126.
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