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SNo Common Name\Scientific Name Extinction Date Range Mammals Prehistoric extinctions (beginning of the Holocene to 1500 AD) American Cheetahs 1 Miracinonyx trumani & Miracinonyx 11000 BC. Northern North America inexpectatus American Lion 2 11000 BC. USA, Canada and Mexico Panthera leo atrox American Mastodon 3 4080 BC. USA and Canada Mammut americanum American Mountain Deer 4 10000 BC. USA Odocoileus lucasi 5 Aztlanolagus agilis 10000 BC. Southeastern Arizona to Central America Beautiful Armadillo 6 8000 BC. USA to South America Dasypus bellus 7 Bison antiquus 10000 BC. USA and Canada 8 Bison occidentalis 5000 BC Alaska to Minnesota Blunt-toothed Giant Hutia 9 11000 BC. Northern Lesser Antilles Amblyrhiza inundata California Tapir 10 11000 BC. USA Tapirus californicus Camelops 11 8000 BC. USA and Mexico Camelops spp. Capromeryx 12 11000 BC. USA and Mexico Capromeryx minor 13 Caribbean Ground Sloths 5000 BC. Caribbean Islands Columbian Mammoth 14 5800 BC. USA and Mexico Mammuthus columbi Dire Wolf 15 8000 BC. North America Canis dirus Florida spectacled bear 16 8000 BC. USA Tremarctos floridanus Giant Beaver 17 Castoroides leiseyorum & Castoroides 11000 BC. Canada and USA ohioensis 18 Glyptodon 10000 BC. Central America Harlan's Muskox 19 9000 BC. North America Bootherium bombifrons Harrington's Mountain Goat 20 12000 BC. USA Oreamnos harringtoni 21 Holmesina septentrionalis 8000 BC. USA Jefferson's Ground Sloth 22 11000 BC. USA and Canada Megalonyx spp. Mexican Horse 23 11000 BC. USA and Mexico Equus conversidens 24 Mylohyus 9000 BC. North America Neochoerus spp. 25 11000 BC. Southeast USA to Panama Neochoerus aesopi & Neochoerus pinckneyi Osborn's Key Mouse 26 11000 BC. Jamaica Clidomys osborni Pleistocene North American Jaguar 27 10000 BC. Panama to USA Panthera onca augusta'’ Panamerican Ground Sloth 28 Eremotherium eomigrans & Eremotherium 11000 BC. USA to Panama laurillardi 29 Paramylodon harlani 11000 BC. North America Plate-toothed Giant Hutia 30 11000 BC. Puerto Rico Elasmodontomys obliquus 31 Platygonus 11000 BC. North America Pygmy Mammoth 32 10800-11300 BC. Channel Islands of California, USA Mammuthus exilis Saber-tooth cat 33 8000 BC. North America Smilodon sp. Scimitar Cats 34 10000 BC. USA, Canada, Mexico Homotherium sp. Shasta Ground Sloth 35 Nothrotheriops shastensis & Nothrotheriops 11000 BC. USA texanus Scott's horse 36 11000 BC. USA and Mexico Equus scotti'’ Short-faced bear 37 8000 BC. North America Arctodus simus Shrub-ox 38 9500 BC. North America Euceratherium collinum Stag-moose 39 12000 BC. USA and Canada Cervalces scotti Steppe Wisent 40 11000 BC. Alaska and Yukon Bison priscus’ Stilt-legged Llama 41 11000 BC. USA and Mexico Hemiauchenia sp. Stockoceros 42 11000 BC. Southwestern North America Stockoceros onusrosagris Stout-legged llama 43 11000 BC. USA Palaeolama ssp. 44 Tapirus merriami 11000 BC. USA Twisted-toothed Mouse 45 11000 BC. Hispaniola Quemisia gravis 46 Ursus maritimus tyrannus 11000 BC. Arctic Western Horse 47 10000 BC. USA Equus occidentalis Woolly Mammoth 48 2000 BC. Northern USA Mammuthus primigenius Yukon Horse 49 11000 BC. USA and Canada Equus lambei Recent extinctions (1500 AD to present) Antillean Giant Rice Rat 1 1902 France (Martinique) Megalomys desmarestii Anthony's Woodrat 2 1926 Mexico (Todos Los Santos Islands) Neotoma anthonyi Banks Island Wolf 3 1920 Canada Canis lupus bernardi Barbados Raccoon 4 1964 Barbados Procyon lotor gloveralleni Bunker's Woodrat 5 1932 Mexico (Coronados Islands) Neotoma bunkeri California Golden Bear 6 1922 California Ursus arctos californicus Caribbean Monk Seal 7 1952 Caribbean Sea Monachus tropicalis Cascade Mountains Wolf 8 1940 Canada and USA Canis lupus fuscus Cuban Coney 9 1500s Cuba Geocapromys columbianus Eastern Cougar Unknown (declared 10 Eastern Canada and USA Puma concolor couguar in 2011) Eastern Elk 11 1887 Eastern Canada and USA Cervus canadensis canadiensis Goff's Pocket Gopher 12 1955 Florida Geomys pinetis goffi Gull Island Vole 13 1897 Gull Island, New York Microtus pennsylvanicus nesophilus Hispaniolan Edible Rat 14 1500s Hispaniola Heteropsomys insulans Insular Cave Rat 15 circa 1600s Puerto Rico Heteropsomys insulans Imposter Hutia 16 1500s Hispaniola Hexolobodon phenax Jamaican Monkey 17 1500s Jamaica Xenothrix mcgregori Jamaican Rice Rat 18 1870s Jamaica Oryzomys antillarum Little Swan Island Hutia 19 1955 Swan Islands, Honduras Geocapromys thoracatus Marcano's Solenodon 20 1500s Hispaniola Solenodon marcanoi Merriam's Elk 21 1906 Southwestern USA Cervus canadensis merriami Mexican Grizzly Bear 22 1964 Southwestern USA Ursus arctos nelsoni Montane Hutia 23 1500s Hispaniola Isolobodon montanus Nelson's Rice Rat 24 1897 María Madre Island, Mexico Oryzomys nelsoni Nevis Rice Rat Netherlans (Sint Eustatius) & Saint Kitts 25 1500s Pennatomys nivalis and Nevis Newfoundland Wolf 26 1911 Newfoundland Canis lupus beothucu Oriente Cave Rat 27 1500s Cuba Boromys offella Pallid Beach Mouse 28 1959 Florida Peromyscus polionotus decoloratus Puerto Rican Hutia 29 circa 1600s Hispaniola and Puerto Rico Isolobodon portoricensis Puerto Rican Long-nosed Bat 30 circa 1600s Puerto Rico Monophyllus frater Saint Lucy Giant Rice Rat 31 1852 St. Lucia Megalomys luciae Saint Vincent Pygmy Rice Rat 32 1898 St. Vincent Oligoryzomys victus Samana Hutia 33 1500sbr Hispaniola Plagiodontia ipnaeum San Martín Island Woodrat 34 1950sbr> San Martín Island, Mexico Neotoma martinensis Sea Mink 35 1860 Atlantic Canada and New England Neovison macrodon Smith Island Cottontail 36 Before 1987 Smith Island, Virginia Sylvilagus floridanus hitchensi Southern Rocky Mountains Wolf 37 1935 Southern Rocky Mountains, USA Canis lupus youngi Steller's Sea Cow 38 1768 Commander Islands Hydrodamalis gigas Tacoma Pocket Gopher 39 1970 Washington Thomomys mazama tacomensis Torre's Cave Rat 40 1500s Cuba Boromys torrei Tule Shrew 41 1905 Baja California, Mexico Sorex ornatus juncensis West Indies Nesophontes Nesophontes sp. Atalaye Nesophontes Cuban Nesophontes Greater Cuban Nesophontes Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Haitian Nesophontes 42 1500s U.S. Virgin Islands & United Kingdom Lesser Cuban Nesophontes (Cayman Islands) Puerto Rican Nesophontes Saint Michel Nesophontes Slender Cuban Nesophontes Western Cuban Nesophontes Possibly Extinct Dwarf Hutia 1 1937 Cuba Mesocapromys nanus Garrido's Hutia 2 1989 Banco de los Jardins y Jardinillos, Cuba Mysateles garridoi Puebla Deer Mouse 3 1948 Puebla, Mexico Peromyscus mekisturus San Quintin Kangaroo Rat 4 1986 Baja California, Mexico Dipodomys gravipes San Felipe Hutia 5 1978 San Felipe, Cuba Mesocapromys sanfelipensis Sclater's Shrew 6 Unknown Chiapas, Mexico Sorex sclateri Birds Prehistoric extinctions (begin Holocene to 1500 AD) 1 Aiolornis incredibilis Late Pleistocene North America Antillean Cave Rail 2 Late Pleistocene Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Nesotrochis debooyi Californian Turkey 3 10,000 BC. USA Meleagris californica 4 Cathartornis gracilis 10,000 BC USA 5 Chendytes lawi 1800 BC. Western USA Coast Cuban Condor 6 Early Holocene Cuba Gymnogyps varonai Daggett's Eagle 7 13000 BC. California and Neuvo Leon, Mexico Buteogallus daggetti La Brea Stork 8 10000 BC. Western, Southern USA and Cuba Ciconia maltha Saint Croix Macaw 9 Unknown St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Ara autocthones Teratorns 10 Teratornis merriami & Teratornis 8000 BC. North America woodburnensis Woodward's Eagle 11 Late Pleistocene Caribbean Amplibuteo woodwardi Recent extinctions (1500 AD to present) Atitlán Grebe 1 1989 Guatemala Podilymbus gigas Bahaman Barn Owl 2 circa 1500s Andros Island, Bahamas Tyto pollens Bermuda Night Heron 3 circa 1700s Bermuda Nyctanassa carcinocatactes Brace's Emerald 4 1870s Bahamas Chlorostilbon bracei Carolina Parakeet 5 1918 Eastern USA and Canada Conuropsis carolinensis Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpecker 6 1987 Cuba Campephilus principalis bairdii Cuban Red Macaw 7 1860s Cuba Ara tricolor Dusky Seaside Sparrow 8 1987 Florida Ammodramus maritimus nigrescens Gould's Emerald 9 Unknown Bahamas or Jamaica Chlorostilbon elegans Grand Cayman Thrush 10 1940s Grand Cayman Turdus ravidus Great Auk 11 1852 North Atlantic Coast Pinguinus impennis Guadalupe Caracara 12 1900 Guadalupe, Mexico Caracara lutosa Guadeloupe Parakeet 13 circa 1700s France (Guadeloupe) Aratinga labati Guadeloupe Parrot 14 1779 France (Guadeloupe) Amazona violacea Heath Hen 15 1932 New England Tympanuchus cupido cupido Labrador Duck 16 1878 Atlantic Northeast Camptorhynchus labradorius Lesser Antillean Macaw 17 1760 France (Guadeloupe) Ara guadeloupensis Martinique Parrot 18 1779 France (Martinique) Amazona martinicana Mauge's Parakeet 19 1779 Mona Island, Puerto Rico Aratinga chloroptera maugei Passenger Pigeon 20 1914 Eastern USA and Canada Ectopistes migratorius Slender-billed Grackle 21 1910 Central Mexico Quiscalus palustris Spectacled Cormorant 22 1850 Komandorski Islands Phalacrocorax perspicillatus Violet Macaw 23 Unknown France (Guadeloupe) Anodorhynchus purpurascens Possibly Extinct Bachman's Warbler 1 1988 Southeastern USA Vermivora bachmanii Eskimo Curlew 2 1981 Alaska to Argentina Numenius borealis Guadalupe Storm Petrel 3 1912 Guadalupe, Mexico Oceanodroma macrodactyla Imperial Woodpecker 4 1956 Mexico Campephilus imperialis Ivory-billed Woodpecker 5 1987 Southeastern USA and Cuba Campephilus principalis Jamaican Petrel 6 1879 Jamaica Pterodroma caribbaea Jamaican Poorwill 7 1860 Jamaica Siphonorhis americana Semper's Warbler 8 1961 St. Lucia Leucopeza semperi Reptiles Modern extinctions (1500 AD to present) Guadeloupe Ameiva 1 1928 France (Guadeloupe)
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    230 E. M. SWINFORD Vol. 85 Copyright © 1985 Ohio Acad. Sci. OO3O-O95O/85/OOO5-O23O $2.00/0 SNAIL DISTRIBUTIONS IN LAKE ERIE: THE INFLUENCE OF ANOXIA IN THE SOUTHERN CENTRAL BASIN NEARSHORE ZONE1 KENNETH A. KRIEGER, Water Quality Laboratory, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, OH 44883 ABSTRACT. The distributions and abundances of gastropods collected in sediment grab samples in 1978 and 1979 in the southern nearshore zone of the central basin of Lake Erie were compared with earlier gastropod records from throughout the lake. Since the 1920s, 34 species in eight families have been reported for the lake proper. Sixteen species have been reported only once, 13 of them in three reports prior to 1950. All but three of the species collected by two or more authors prior to the mid-1950s have also been collected in the past decade. The most frequently reported species are Walvata trkarinata, Bithynia tentaculata, Elimia ( =Goniobasis) livescens, Physella "sp.", Amnkola limosa, Pleuroceraacuta and V. sincera. Only six of 19 studies reported species densities, and most did not record sample locations, depths or substrates. Thus, only a limited comparison of the gastropod fauna between studies was possible, with the exception of several well documented studies in the western basin up to the early 1960s. Of four introduced species in Lake Erie, only two were found in the present study, and these appear to have no influence on the present distributions of the native species. The absence of snails in the south- western part of the study area and at the mouths of the Cuyahoga and Black rivers appears to be the result of prolonged anoxia during one or more summers preceding the study.