8/12/2023 0 Comments Ice age animals list with pictures![]() ![]() hemionus (Rafinesque, 1817) (mule deer)Ĭervus cf. Hemiauchenia macrocephala (Cope, 1893) † (large-headed llama) compressus LeConte, 1848 † fFlat-headed peccary)Ĭamelops hesternus (Leidy, 1854) † (yesterday's camel) Tapirus californicus Merriam, 1913 † (California tapir) occidentalis Leidy, 1865 † (western horse)Įquus conversidens Owen, 1869 † (mexican horse) Mammuthus columbi (Falconer, 1857) † (Columbian mammoth)Įquus cf. Mammut americanum (Kerr, 1791) † (American mastodon) Panthera onca augusta (Simpson, 1941) † (giant jaguar) Panthera atrox (Leidy, 1853) † (American lion) Homotherium serum (Cope, 1893) † (sabertoothed cat) Smilodon fatalis brevipes (Merriam and Stock, 1932) † (sabertoothed cat) Smilodon fatalis (Leidy, 1868) † (sabertoothed cat) Ursus arctos horribilis (Ord, 1815) ¶ (grizzly bear) Ursus americanus Pallas, 1780 (American black bear) Urocyon cinereoargenteus (Schreber, 1775) (gray fox)įamily Procyonidae (racoons and ringtails)īassariscus astutus (Lichtenstein, 1830) (ringtail)Īrctodus simus (Cope, 1879 ) † (short-faced bear) Mephitis mephitis (Schreber, 1776) (striped skunk)Ĭanis familiaris Linnaeus, 1758 (domestic dog) Spilogale putorius (Linnaeus, 1758 ) (spotted skunk) Taxidea taxus (Schreber, 1778) (American badger) Mustela frenata Lichtenstein, 1831 (long-tailed weasel) Microtus californicus (Peale, 1848) (California vole)įamily Mustelidae (weasels, badgers, and skunks) Neotoma fuscipes Baird, 1858 (dusky-footed woodrat) Onychomys torridus (Coues, 1874) (southern grasshopper mouse) Peromyscus imperfectus Dice, 1925 † (deer mouse) Reithrodontomys megalotis (Baird, 1858) (western harvest mouse ) Perognathus californicus Merriam, 1889 (pocket mouse)įamily Cricetidae (rats, mice, and voles) Thomomys bottae (Eydoux and Gervais, 1836) (Botta's pocket gopher)įamily Heteromyidae (kangaroo rats and pocket mice)ĭipodomys agilis Gambel, 1848 (agile kangaroo rat) merriami (Allen, 1889) (Merriam's chipmunks ) Otospermophilus beecheyi (Richardson, 1823) (California ground squirrel ) Lepus californicus Gray, 1837 (black-tailed jackrabbit) Sylvilagus bachmani (Waterhouse, 1839) (brush rabbit) Sylvilagus audubonii (Baird, 1858) (desert cottontail) Paramylodon harlani (Owen, 1840) † (Harlan's ground sloth) Nothrotheriops shastensis (Sinclair, 1905) † (Shasta ground sloth) Megalonyx jeffersonii (Desmarest, 1822) † (Jefferson's ground sloth) Lasiurus cinereus (Palisot de Deauvois, 1796) (Hoary bat)Īntrozous pallidus (Le Conte, 1856) (Pallid bat) Scapanus latimanus (Bachman, 1842) (broad-footed mole) Notiosorex crawfordi (Coues, 1877) (Crawford's gray shrew) Sorex ornatus Merriam, 1895 (ornate shrew) Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 113 pp. Rancho La Brea: A record of Pleistocene life in California. The following taxonomic list has been taken directly from the following reference but revisions may be necessary. Check out the story of our rare puma skull and how it got a nickname! Did you know that grizzly bears used to live in California! Find out more here. The fossils from Rancho La Brea also hold clues to how humans have more recently shaped California's mammal communities through the historic extirpations of pronghorn ( Antilocapra americana) and grizzly bears ( Ursus arctos), and ongoing introductions of non-native species such as Eastern fox squirrels ( Sciurus niger) in the Anthropocene. Others went extinct during the Late Pleistocene, including giant ground sloths, saber-toothed cats, mastodons, mammoths, tapirs, camels, and horses. ![]() Many groups are still alive today, such as coyotes, mountain lions, woodrats, bats, shrews, rabbits, black bears, and raccoons. Our collections contain species that represent the last 50,000 years of southern California life. New research with an eye towards microfossils has revealed a stunning diversity and abundance of small mammals, and studies of associated sediments have uncovered new taphonomic environments that preserved clues to their behaviors and broader ecological context. The Ancient bison ( Bison antiquus) is the most common large herbivore and is represented by at least 300 individuals, many of them young. Historically, the majority of the mammals excavated from our deposits have been large carnivores, supporting a hypothesized "carnivore trap" in which large herbivores entrapped in asphalt attracted predators and scavengers, who themselves became entrapped while trying to steal a quick meal. Our most common mammals include dire wolves ( Canis dirus), saber-toothed cats ( Smilodon fatalis), and coyotes ( Canis latrans)-all carnivores! Rancho La Brea holds one of the world's richest collections of a single mammal community through time, spanning the last Ice Age, the arrival of humans in North America, and the ongoing transformations of urban Los Angeles. ![]()
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