Tapirus polkensis
| Tapirus polkensis Temporal range:
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| Fossil replicas on display at the Gray Fossil Site & Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Tapiridae |
| Genus: | Tapirus |
| Species: | †T. polkensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tapirus polkensis Olsen, 1960
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Tapirus polkensis, the pygmy tapir, is a small
making it smaller than any extant tapir.The Gray Fossil Site in northeast Tennessee is home to the world's largest known fossil assemblage of T. polkensis.
Life reconstruction
References
- ^ doi:10.1666/08-062.1.