A Review of the Fossil Tapirs from Bolivia -Taxonomy and Biogeography. . 2012.

FERRERO, B.S.; SOIBELZON, E.; GASPARINI, G. M.; HOLANDA, E.; ZURITA, A. E.; MIÑO BOILINI, A. R.

ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

INST PALEOBIOLOGII PAN

Lugar: Varsovia; Año: 2014 vol. 59 p. 505 - 516

0567-7920

Fossil remains of South American tapirs are often fragmentary and scarce compared withthose of other mammals that entered South America during the ?Great American BioticInterchange?. Here, we review and add to the Pleistocene tapir remains from the Valley ofTarija (Bolivia), and provide a taxonomic re-evaluation of Tapirus tarijensis. T. tarijensis isa large-sized taxon, approximating the size of the living Malaysian T. indicus and extinctNorth American T. haysii. The geographical distribution of Pleistocene records of Tapirusin South America indicates that T. tarijensis was the only known species inhabiting theValley of Tarija during this time.