Lists of extinct species

List of extinct species

The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks. Intermediate minor rankings are not shown.

This page features lists of species and organisms that have become extinct. The reasons for extinction range from natural occurrences, such as shifts in the Earth's ecosystem or natural disasters, to human influences on nature by the overuse of natural resources, hunting and destruction of natural habitats.

In actual theoretical practice, a species not definitely located in the wild in the last 50 years of current time is textually called "extinct".

## Plants

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* List of recently extinct plants

## Animals

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### By region

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* List of African animals extinct in the Holocene
* List of Madagascar and Indian Ocean Island animals extinct in the Holocene
* List of Macaronesian animals extinct in the Holocene
* List of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha animals extinct in the Holocene
* List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene
* List of European species extinct in the Holocene
* List of extinct animals of the British Isles
* List of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily animals extinct in the Holocene
* List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene
* List of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in the Holocene
* List of Oceanian animals extinct in the Holocene
* List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene
* List of Hawaiian animals extinct in the Holocene
* List of New Zealand species extinct in the Holocene
* List of South American animals extinct in the Holocene
* List of Galapagos Islands animals extinct in the Holocene

### Fossil taxa

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* List of dinosaur genera
* List of fossil bird genera
* List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species
* List of fossil primates
* Lists of prehistoric fish

### Recent extinction

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* List of bird extinctions by year
* List of extinct dog breeds
* List of recently extinct amphibians
* List of recently extinct arthropods
* List of recently extinct bats
* List of recently extinct fishes
* List of recently extinct insects
* List of recently extinct invertebrates
* List of recently extinct mammals
* List of recently extinct molluscs
* List of recently extinct reptiles

## See also

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* Biology portal

* Category:Extinct species
* Category:Species made extinct by human activities
* Category:Species by threat
* Extinction
* Extinction event
* Endangered species
* Extinct (disambiguation)
* Lists of organisms by population
* Lists of animals
* List of lists of lists §§ Natural and physical sciences​ and List of lists of lists

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Extinction

Phenomena|

* Background extinction rate
* Coextinction
* De-extinction
* Ecological extinction
* Extinct in the wild
* Functional extinction
* Genetic pollution
* Lazarus taxon
* Local extinction
* Pseudoextinction

Models|

* Extinction vortex

Causes|

* Climate variability and change
* Genetic erosion
* Invasive species
* Habitat destruction
* Human impact on the environment
* Muller's ratchet
* Mutational meltdown
* Overabundant species
* Overexploitation
* Overshoot
* Paradox of enrichment

Theories
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* Extinction debt
* Extinction risk from climate change
* Extinction threshold
* Quasi-extinction
* Field of bullets
* Hypothetical species
* Latent extinction risk
* Living fossil

Extinction events|

| Major|

* Ordovician–Silurian
* Late Devonian
* Permian–Triassic
* Triassic–Jurassic
* Cretaceous–Paleogene
* Holocene
* Timeline

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Other|

* Great Oxidation
* End-Ediacaran
* End-Botomian
* Dresbachian
* Cambrian–Ordovician
* Ireviken
* Mulde
* Lau
* Carboniferous
* Olson's
* End-Capitanian
* Carnian Pluvial
* Toarcian
* End-Jurassic or Tithonian
* Aptian
* Cenomanian-Turonian
* Eocene–Oligocene
* Middle Miocene
* Pliocene–Pleistocene
* Quaternary

Extinct species|

* Lists of extinct species
* IUCN Red List extinct species

Organizations|

* International Union for Conservation of Nature
* IUCN Species Survival Commission
* Extinction Rebellion
* Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

See also|

* Anthropocene
* Decline in amphibian populations
* Decline in insect populations
* Endling
* Extinction symbol
* Human extinction
* The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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* Commons

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Holocene extinctions by region

| Africa|

* Madagascar and Indian Ocean islands
* Macaronesia
* Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

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Asia|

Europe|

* Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily

North America|

* Antilles and Bermuda

Oceania|

* Australia-New Guinea
* New Zealand
* Hawaii

South America|

* Galápagos Islands

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