Period: 1.77 million to 10,000 years ago.

Mammals (42)

Upper limit:

†Anancus arvernensis

†Homo erectus (Dubois, 1894)

†Homo habilis L.S.B. Leakey et al., 1964

†Mammut americanum - American mastodon

†Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti, 1825) - southern mammoth

†Paranthropus boisei

†Paranthropus boisei (L.S.B. Leakey, 1959)

†Paranthropus robustus Broom, 1938

Entire range:

†Antillothrix bernensis

†Bubalus cebuensis 2006

†Caipora bambuiorum

†Cro-Magnon peoples

†Crocidura xanthippe Bate, 1937

†Dinaromys dalmatinus

†Dinaromys topachevskii

†Elephas antiquus Falconer & Cautley, 1847 - forest elephant

†Elephas antiquus falconeri

†Homo antecessor Bermudez de Castro et al., 1997

†Homo cepranensis Mallegni et al., 2003

†Homo floresiensis P. Brown et al., 2004, nom. inq. - Flores man

†Homo rhodesiensis Woodward, 1921

†Homo sapiens idaltu T.D. White et al., 2003 - Herto man

†Lasiorhinus krefftii krefftii (Owen, 1873)

†LB1 2003 - hobbit

†Mammuthus columbi - Columbian mammoth

†Mammuthus jeffersonii - Jefferson's mammoth

†Mammuthus trogontherii (Pohlig, 1885) - steppe mammoth

†Microtus brecciensis (Giebel, 1847)

†Myospalax pseudarmandi

†OH 9 - Chellean man

†Paralouatta varonai

†Protopithecus brasiliensis

†Sarcophilus laniarius (Owen, in T.L. Mitchell, 1838) - Tasmanian devil

†Xenothrix mcgregori

Lower limit:

Homo sapiens C. Linnaeus, 1758 - human

Lasiorhinus krefftii (Owen, 1873) - northern hairy-nosed wombat

Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) - woolly mammoth

Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799) - platypus

Synaptomys borealis (Richardson, 1828) - northern bog lemming

Within limits:

Diatomys shantungensis Li, 1974 - stone-dwelling puzzle-mouse

Jaculus orientalis Erxleben, 1777 - greater Egyptian jerboa

Monachus tropicalis (Gray, 1850) - Caribbean monk seal

Birds (15)

Entire range:

†Emberiza alcoveri Rando, Lopez & Segui, 1999

†Genyornis newtoni Sterling & Zeitz, 1894

†Mullerornis agilis Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, 1894

†Mullerornis betsilei Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, 1894

†Mullerornis rudis Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, 1894

†Nesotrochis steganinos Olson, 1974

†Puffinus holeae Walker, Wragg & Harrison, 1990 - Canarian shearwater

Lower limit:

Aegotheles novaezealandiae (Scarlett, 1968)

Alopochen mauritianus (Newton & Gadow, 1893) - Mauritian shelduck

Alopochen sirabensis (Andrews, 1897)

Centrornis majori Andrews, 1897

Chendytes lawi L.H. Miller, 1925

Dromaius novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790) - emu

Puffinus spelaeus

Within limits:

Euryapteryx curtus (Owen, 1846)

Reptiles (1)

Within limits:

Morelia spilota (Lacépède, 1804)

Amphibians (1)

Lower limit:

Plethodon asupak Mead et al., 2005 - Scott Bar salamander

Fishes (5)

Lower limit:

Rutilus rubilio (Bonaparte, 1837)

Within limits:

Antennarius ocellatus group

Barbus brevicephalus Nagelkerke & Sibbing, 1997

Cyprinus carpio C. Linnaeus, 1758

Hydrolagus matallanasi Soto & Vooren, 2004

Crustaceans (3)

Within limits:

Neoglyphea neocaledonica

Seborgia subterranea

Triops cancriformis Linnaeus

Molluscs (2)

Upper limit:

†Sincola crassilabrum (Guppy, 1874) Jung, 1989

Within limits:

Neritopsis radula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Invertebrates (1)

Within limits:

Eusmilia fastigiata (Pallas, 1766) - smooth flower coral

Plants (1)

Within limits:

Wollemia nobilis W.G. Jones et al., 1995 - Wollemi pine

Prokaryotes (2)

Lower limit:

Carnobacterium pleistocenium Pikuta et al., 2005

Within limits:

Desulforudis audaxviator L.-H. Lin et al., 2006

Links

http://www.palaeos.com/Cenozoic/Pleistocene/Pleistocene.htm