California Tapir Temporal range: Middle–Late Pleistocene | |
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Painting from San Diego Natural History Museum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Superfamily: | Tapiroidea |
Family: | Tapiridae |
Genus: | Tapirus |
Species: | †T. californicus |
Binomial name | |
†Tapirus californicus (Merriam, 1912) | |
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The California Tapir (Tapirus californicus) is a species of tapir from Pleistocene North America.