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This list of European animals extinct in the Holocene features animals known to have become extinct in the last 12,000 years on the
Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...
an continent and its surrounding islands.
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of European countries in other continents, like
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, are not included, as they should be found in their pertaining list. The
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are included but not other
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n islands, which are in the
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. Likewise, all large islands in the
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are included except for
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, which is in the
List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene This list of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene features animals known to have become extinct in the last 12,000 years on the Asian continent and its islands. Many extinction dates are unknown due to a lack of relevant information. Mammals ...
. Many extinction dates are unknown due to a lack of relevant information.


Mammals


Undated


Prehistoric


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Reptiles


Fish


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Sea anemones


Molluscs





See also

* Limousin horse, extinct *
List of extinct animals of Catalonia This is a list of extinct and extirpated animals of Spain. Globally extinct species Globally extinct mammals *Aurochs - human-caused *European lion - human-caused *Irish elk *Monk seal (two species endangered) - 1950; human-caused * Pyrenean i ...
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List of extinct animals of Caucasus This list of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene features animals known to have become extinct in the last 12,000 years on the Asian continent and its islands. Many extinction dates are unknown due to a lack of relevant information. Mammals ...
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List of extinct animals of the British Isles This is a list of extinct animals of the British Isles, including extirpated species. Only a small number of the listed species are globally extinct (most famously the Irish elk, great auk and woolly mammoth). Most of the remainder survive to s ...
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List of extinct and endangered species of Italy This is a list of extinct and endangered species of Italy. Symbols *EX = extinct *CR = critically endangered *EN = endangered *VU = vulnerable Italian Animals *Slender-billed curlew (''Numenius tenuirostris'') (critically endangered) *Balearic sh ...
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List of extinct and endangered animals of Lithuania This is a list of extinct, endangered and threatened animals of Lithuania. Collection of this list started in 1959 and the current version (2003) contains 815 species: 23 mammals, 75 birds, 128 insects, 224 flowering plants, 199 fungi and lichen. ...
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List of extinct animals of the Netherlands This list of extinct animals of the Netherlands includes the animal species and subspecies once lived in the Netherlands but have disappeared since human habitation. This list features the mammals, birds, fish, molluscs, butterflies, dragonfl ...
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List of extinct animals This page features lists of extinct species, organisms that have become extinct, either in the wild or completely disappeared from Earth. In actual theoretical practice, a species not definitely located in the wild in the last fifty years of cur ...
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List of extinct birds Around 129 species of birds have become extinct since 1500, and the rate of extinction seems to be increasing. The situation is exemplified by Hawaii, where 30% of all known recently extinct bird taxa originally lived. Other areas, such as Gua ...
* Extinct in the wild *
Lazarus taxon In paleontology, a Lazarus taxon (plural ''taxa'') is a taxon that disappears for one or more periods from the fossil record, only to appear again later. Likewise in conservation biology and ecology, it can refer to species or populations tha ...


Notes


References


External links


The Extinction Website

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species


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Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...
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