Extinct organisms that are represented with sequence data at GenBank

Mammals:

Caloprymnus campestris (desert rat kangaroo)
Canis lupus hodophilax (Japanese wolf)
Chaeropus ecaudatus (pig-footed bandicoot)
Elephas antiquus falconeri (Tilo island dwarf elephant)
Equus quagga boehmi (quagga)
Hippidion saldiasi (Pleistocene horse from South America)
Hippotragus leucophaeus (blue antelope)
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis (Neanderthal man)
Hydrodamalis gigas (Steller's sea cow)
Mammuthus primigenius (woolly mammoth)
Mammut americanum (American mastodon)
Megaladapis sp. (giant lemur)
Megaloceros giganteus (Irish elk)
Mylodon darwinii (ground sloth)
Myotragus balearicus
Potorous platyops (broad-faced potoroo)
Smilodon fatalis (saber-toothed cat)
Thylacinus cynocephalus (Tasmanian wolf)
Ursus spelaeus (cave bear)

Birds:

Aegotheles novaezealandiae
Anomalopteryx didiformis (little bush moa)
Aptornis defossor (South Island adzebill)
Dinornis novaezealandiae (large bush moa)
Dinornis struthoides (slender bush moa)
Euryapteryx curtus (costal moa)
Fulica chathamensis (New Zealand coot)
Gallirallus dieffenbachii (Dieffenbach's rail)
Gallirallus modestus (Chatham rail)
Heteralocha acutirostris (huia)
Megalapteryx didinus (South Island Tokoweka)
Pachyornis elephantopus (heavy-footed moa)
Pachyornis australis (crested moa)
Pachyornis mappini (Mappin's moa)
Pezophaps solitaria (Rodriguez solitaire)
Pinguinus impennis (great auk)
Raphus cucullatus (dodo)
Thambetochen chauliodous (moa-nalo)
Turnagra capensis (South Island piopio)

Lizards:

Gallotia simonyi simonyi

Amphibia:

Uperoleia marmorata (marbled toadlet)

Insects:

Libanorhinus succinus (a beetle from Lebanese amber 120-135 mya)
Mastotermes electrodominicus (a termite from Dominican amber 25-40 mya)

Green plants:

Comments and questions to info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Credits: Joe Bischoff, Mikhail Domrachev, Scott Federhen, Carol Hotton, Detlef Leipe, Vladimir Soussov, Richard Sternberg, Sean Turner.

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