User:WolfmanSF/List of North American megafauna

Megafauna are large animals (for definitions, see Megafauna). This list includes extant and recently extinct (in the Pleistocene) native North American species with a body mass of 40 kg or greater, the minimal mass to be considered megafaunal. Other definitions of megafaunal place use a higher threshold mass, up to 250 kg. Some species listed here do not qualify as megafaunal if a higher threshold is used.

Class Mammalia

 * American Bison (Bison bison)
 * American Black Bear (Ursus americanus)
 * American Cheetah † (Miracinonyx trumani)
 * American Horse † (Equus scotti)
 * American Lion † (Panthera leo atrox)
 * American Mastodon † (Mammut americanum)
 * American Mountain Deer † (Navahoceros fricki)
 * American Scimitar Cat † (Homotherium serum)
 * American Zebra † (Equus simplicidens)
 * Ancient Caribou † (Torontoceros hypocaetus)
 * Ancient Bison † (Bison antiquus)
 * Ancient Moose † (Bretzia nebrascensis)
 * Big-headed Llama † (Hemiauchenia macrocephala)
 * Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)
 * California tapir † (Tapirus californicus)
 * Caribou (Rangifer tarandus)
 * Columbian Mammoth † (Mammuthus columbi)
 * Cougar (Puma concolor)
 * Dall's sheep (Ovis dalli)
 * Dire Wolf † (Canis dirus)
 * Eastern Wolf (Canis lupus lycaon)
 * Elk (Cervus canadensis)
 * Flat-horned ox † (Platycerabos dodsoni)
 * Florida Cave Bear † (Tremarctos floridanus)
 * Florida Saber-Toothed Cat † (Xenosmilus hodsonae)
 * Florida tapir † (Tapirus veroensis)
 * Flat-headed Peccary † (Platygonus sp.)
 * Giant Beaver † (Castoroides ohioensis)
 * Giant Horse † (Equus giganteus)
 * Gidley's Glyptodont † (Glyptotherium arizonae)
 * Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
 * Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)
 * Grizzly bear (brown bear) (Ursus arctos horribilis)
 * Harlan's Ground Sloth † (Paramylodon harlani)
 * Harlan's muskox † (Bootherium bombifrons)
 * Harrington's Mountain Goat † (Oreamnos harringtoni)
 * Human being (Homo sapiens)
 * Imperial Mammoth † (Mammuthus imperator)
 * Jaguar (Panthera onca augusta)
 * Jefferson's Ground Sloth † (Megalonyx jeffersoni)
 * Jeffersonian Mammoth † (Mammuthus jeffersonii)
 * Kodiak bear (brown bear) (Ursus arctos middendorfi)
 * Laurillard's Ground Sloth † (Eremotherium laurillardi)
 * Large Beaver † (Procastoroides sp.)
 * Large-Headed Llama † (Hemiauchenia macrocephala)
 * Long-nosed Peccary † (Mylohyus nasutus)


 * Longhorn Bison † (Bison latifrons)
 * Mackenzie Valley Wolf (Canis lupus occidentalis)
 * Mexican Horse † (Equus conversidens)
 * Mexican Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi)
 * Moose (Alces alces gigas)
 * Mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus)
 * Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus)
 * Muskox (Ovibos moschatus)
 * North American Glyptodon † (Glyptotherium texanum)
 * Northern Pampathere † (Holmesina septentrionalis)
 * Odocoileus lucasi †
 * Plains Bison (Bison bison bison)
 * Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus)
 * Pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana)
 * Pinckney's Capybara † (Neochoerus pinckneyi)
 * Pygmy Mammoth † (Mammuthus exilis)
 * Pygmy Onager † (Equus tau)
 * Red Wolf (Canis rufus)
 * Running hyena (Chasmaporthetes ossifragus)
 * Rusconi's Ground Sloth † (Eremotherium rusconii)
 * Sabre-toothed cat † (Smilodon fatalis)
 * Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris)
 * Shasta Ground Sloth † (Nothrotheriops shastensis)
 * Short-faced bears † (Arctodus simus and A. pristinus)
 * Shrub-ox † (Euceratherium collium)
 * Saiga Antelope † (Saiga borealis)
 * Simpson's Glyptodon † (Glyptotherium floridanum)
 * Soergel's ox † (Soergelia mayfieldi)
 * Stag-moose † (Cervacles scotti)
 * Staudinger's muskox † (Praeovibos priscus)
 * Steller's sea cow † (Hydrodamalis gigas)
 * Steppe horse † (Equus steppis)
 * Stilt-legged deer † (Sangamona fugitivia)
 * Stout-legged Llama † (Palaeolama mirifica)
 * Western Dirk-toothed Cat † (Megantereon sp.)
 * West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus)
 * White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
 * Wilmington’s Giant Ground Sloth † (Eremotherium eomigrans)
 * Vancouver Island Wolf (Canis lupus crassodon)
 * Western Hog-nosed Skunk (Conepatus mesoleucus)
 * Woolly Mammoth † (Mammuthus primigenius)
 * Yesterday's Camel † (Camelops hesternus)
 * Yukon Wild Ass † (Equus asinus lambei)

Class Sauropsida

 * Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys temminckii)
 * American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
 * American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus)


 * American Giant Tortoise † (Geochelone wilsoni)
 * Beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum)
 * Bolson Tortoise (Gopherus flavomarginatus),

Class Actinopterygii
(non-oceanic species)


 * Alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula)
 * American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula)
 * Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus)
 * Blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus)
 * Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
 * Flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris)


 * Green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris)
 * Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)
 * Muskellunge (Esox masquinongy)
 * Pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus)
 * White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus)

Class Amphibia

 * American Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana)

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