List of extinct animals of Europe

This list of extinct animals in Europe features the animals that have become extinct on the European continent and some in other dependent territories of European countries. While most of the animals in the recent Holocene have a human-caused extinction, Pleistocene extinctions and early Holocene extinctions are contested. Many theories of the cause of their extinction have been presented; some human-caused while others as a product of climate change. The K-T extinction is also contested, with the major cause being either both volcano and meteor or just a meteorite that caused the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.

Many of the extinct animals were subspecies or color morphs such as the pied raven or disputed species like the tarpan or the gravenche. Most extinctions occurred in prehistoric times. The species gone extinct in the last 500 years were mostly from peripheral regions of Europe like the Caucasus, the North Atlantic or Mediterranean islands. Except for molluscs, the only species extinct in the heartland of Europe in the last 500 years is the aurochs, which survives in the form of primitive cattle breeds that possess similar physical features.

Prehistoric extinctions

Mammals

Birds

Reptiles

Crocodilians

Dinosaurs
 List of European dinosaurs

Pterosaurs

Recent extinctions

Mammals

Birds

Reptiles

Fish

Insects

Sea anemones

Molluscs
22 species and three subspecies of gastropods have become extinct in Europe since 1500. No species of bivalves are known to have become extinct in Europe after 1500.

 Belgrandia varica (J. Paget, 1854), already said CR on IUCN Red List 
 Belgrandiella boetersi (P. Reischutz & Falkner, 1998) = Belgrandiella intermedia (Austria)
 Bythiospeum pfeifferi (Clessin, 1890)
 Caseolus calvus galeatus (R. T. Lowe, 1862)
 Discula lyelliana (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
 Discula tetrica (R. T. Lowe, 1862)
 Discus engonatus (Shuttleworth, 1852)
 Discus retextus (Shuttleworth, 1852)
 Discus textilis (Shuttleworth, 1852)
 Geomitra delphinuloides (R. T. Lowe 1860)
 Geomitra grabhami (Wollaston, 1878)
 Graecoanatolica macedonica Radoman & Stankovic, 1979 - (Lake Dorjan, North Macedonia, Greece)
 Gyralina hausdorfi Riedel, 1990
 Janulus pompylius (Shuttleworth, 1852)
 Keraea garachicoensis (Wollaston, 1878)
 Leiostyla abbreviata (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
 Leiostyla gibba (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
 Leiostyla lamellosa (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
 Leptaxis simia hyaena (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
 Ohridohauffenia drimica (Radoman, 1964) - (North Macedonia)
 Parmacella gervaisii Moquin-Tandon, 1850
 Pseudocampylaea loweii (A. Ferussac, 1835)
 Zonites embolium elevatus Riedel & Mylonas, 1997
 Zonites santoriniensis Riedel & Norris, 1987
 Zonites siphnicus Fuchs & Käufel, 1936

See also
 Limousin horse, extinct
 List of extinct animals of Catalonia
 List of extinct animals of Caucasus
 List of extinct animals of the British Isles
 List of extinct and endangered species of Italy
 List of extinct and endangered animals of Lithuania
 List of extinct animals of the Netherlands
 List of extinct animals
 List of extinct birds
 Extinct in the wild
 Lazarus taxon

Notes

References

External links
 The Extinction Website
 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
 European Union - Nature and Biodiversity

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