Field guide
Animal directory
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Asian Elephant
Elephas maximus Linnaeus, 1758
South Asia · Southeast Asia · Living today
Blue Whale
Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Oceans worldwide · Living today
Common Bottlenose Dolphin
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
Temperate and tropical oceans worldwide · Living today
Dimetrodon
Dimetrodon grandis (Case, 1907)
Texas and Oklahoma, North America · Early Permian · about 286–274 million years ago
Elasmosaurus
Elasmosaurus platyurus (Cope, 1868)
Kansas and the Western Interior Seaway, North America · Late Cretaceous · about 83–72 million years ago
Fennec fox
Vulpes zerda
Sahara and other North African deserts · Living today
Giant Ground Sloth
Megatherium americanum Cuvier, 1796
South America · Pleistocene · about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago
Humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Oceans worldwide · Living today
Iguanodon bernissartensis
Iguanodon bernissartensis Boulenger, 1881
Belgium and England, Europe · Early Cretaceous · about 140–110 million years ago
Javan rhinoceros
Rhinoceros sondaicus
Ujung Kulon National Park, western Java, Indonesia · Living today
Koala
Phascolarctos cinereus
Eastern and southeastern Australia · Living today
Lemming
Lemmus lemmus
Northern Fennoscandia · Living today
Mosasaurus
Mosasaurus hoffmannii Mantell, 1829
Western Europe and the Western Interior Seaway · Late Cretaceous · about 84–66 million years ago
North Atlantic right whale
Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776)
Atlantic coast of eastern North America · Living today
Orange-necked partridge
Arborophila davidi Delacour, 1927
Southern Vietnam · Living today
Pteranodon
Pteranodon longiceps (Marsh, 1876)
Kansas and the Western Interior Seaway, North America · Late Cretaceous · about 86–72 million years ago
Quokka
Setonix brachyurus
Rottnest Island and southwestern Western Australia · Living today
Reeves's pheasant
Syrmaticus reevesii (J.E.Gray, 1829)
Central and eastern China · Living today
Sperm whale
Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758
Oceans worldwide · Living today
Tiger
Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758)
South Asia · Southeast Asia · Russian Far East · Living today
Ural owl
Strix uralensis
Northern and eastern Europe and northern Asia · Living today
Velociraptor
Velociraptor mongoliensis Osborn, 1924
Mongolia, Central Asia · Late Cretaceous · about 75–71 million years ago
Woolly Mammoth
Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799)
Northern Eurasia and North America · Pleistocene · about 400,000 to 4,000 years ago
Xiphactinus audax
Xiphactinus audax (Leidy, 1870)
Central North America · Late Cretaceous · about 100–72 million years ago
Yak
Bos grunniens
Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya · Living today
Zebra-tailed lizard
Callisaurus draconoides
Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico · Living today
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