Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Alternative spelling: Tapirina
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Tapiroidea according to E. C. Holanda et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Cambaylophus, Deperetellidae, Euryletes, Haagella, Helaletes, Helaletidae, Heptodon, Heptodontidae, Hesperaletes, Thuliadanta
Subtaxa: none
Type: Tapirus
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (5 collections), Bolivia (2), Brazil (26), China (18), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), France (1), Guatemala (2), Indonesia (4), Laos (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (2), Panama (1), Peru (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (122: Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia), Uruguay (4), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (2)
• Blancan of Mexico (2), United States (21: California, Colorado, Florida, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene of Argentina (1), France (2), Greece (2), Hungary (1), Italy (8), Moldova (1), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (2), Slovakia (4), Spain (1), United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of United States (17: Alabama, California, Florida, Nebraska, Tennessee)
• Baodean of China (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Austria (2), Bulgaria (1), China (2), France (6), Germany (2), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (7), Turkey (1), United States (41: California, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming), Vietnam (1)
• Neogene of Myanmar (1), Slovakia (1)
• Harrisonian of United States (6: Florida, Nebraska, Wyoming)
• Arikareean of United States (3: Oregon, South Dakota)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Kazakhstan (2), Switzerland (1)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), Canada (1: Saskatchewan), China (1), France (3), Georgia (1), Germany (4), Kazakhstan (1), Switzerland (6), United States (22: Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota)
• Eocene to Oligocene of China (2), Kazakhstan (1), North Korea (1)
• Eocene of Canada (7: Saskatchewan), China (7), Japan (4), Kazakhstan (3), Kyrgyzstan (5), Mongolia (7), North Korea (1), Pakistan (1), United States (47: California, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 479 collections including 514 occurrences