Tapirus johnsoni is an extinct species of tapir that lived in Nebraska during the Pliocene epoch.
| Tapirus johnsoni Temporal range: Pliocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Tapiridae |
| Genus: | Tapirus |
| Species: | †T. johnsoni
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tapirus johnsoni Schultz et al., 1975
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Tapirus johnsoni is one of the older known tapirs and shows an increase in size from the earlier Tapirus polkensis. It was described in 1975 together with Tapirus simpsoni.[1]
References
edit- ^ Schultz, C.B.; Martin, L.D.; Corner, R.G. (1975). "Middle and Late Ceno Middle and Late Cenozoic Tapirs fr apirs from Nebr om Nebraska". Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum. 10 (1).
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