Extinct Animals of South America-Pictures

Because the end pleistocene extinctions in South America were a little later than North America, several large traditionally pleistocene animals survived well into the holocene in South America, including a gompthothere species, a species of sabertoothed cat, a species of glyptodont, and at least one variety of ground sloth. Hence their inclusion in this quiz. Fascinating given how the extinctions were probably more complete than North America, with effectively everything larger than a tapir or jaguar wiped out on land, including several entire families of animal.

The fuegoan dog is not a dog at all but instead most likely a domesticated culpeo fox, or possibly a domesticated duiscyon.

Duiscyon avis itself is fascinating as it is basically a wolf-fox or maybe a South American coyote which nearly made it to the present day, with the last remnant population dying out right around european arrival and the sister species in the Falkland Islands, the Warrah dying out in the late-1800s.