This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
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L. Scherler, 2011 - Tapiridae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) of the Swiss Molasse Basin during the Oligocene–Miocene transition - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (31), 479-496 (journal article, English)
E. C. Holanda, 2011 - New Tapirus species (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Tapiridae) from the upper Pleistocene of Amazonia, Brazil - Journal of Mammalogy (92), 111-120 (journal article, English)
K. Miyata, 2011 - Eocene mammals from the Akasaki and Nakakoshiki formations, western Kyushu, Japan: Preliminary work and correlation with Asian Land Mammal Ages - Vertebrata PalAsiatica (49), 53-68 (journal article, English)
B. U. Bayshashov, 2011 - Records of Tapiroidea Gray, 1825 (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from Kazakhstan – An overview - Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae (74), 1-7 (journal article, English)
R. C. Hulbert, 2010 - A new early Pleistocene tapir (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) from Florida, with a review of Blancan tapirs from around the state - Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History (49), 67-126 (journal article, English)
B. S. Ferrero, 2007 - A new upper Pleistocene tapir from Argentina: remarks on the phylogenetics and diversification of neotropical Tapiridae - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (27), 504-511 (journal article, English)
M. W. Colbert, 2006 - Hesperaletes (Mammalia : Perissodactyla), a new tapiroid from the middle Eocene of southern California - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (26), 697-711 (journal article, English)
M. W. Colbert, 2005 - The facial skeleton of the early Oligocene Colodon (Perissodactyla, Tapiroidea) - Palaeontologia Electronica (8), 1-27 (journal article, English)
T. Tsubamoto, 2005 - Middle Eocene ungulate mammals from Myanmar: A review with description of new specimens - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (50), 117-138 (journal article, English)
A. O. Averianov, 2005 - Ceratomorphs (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the early Eocene Andarak 2 locality in Kyrgyzstan - Geodiversitas (27), 221-237 (journal article, English)
J. J. Eberle, 2005 - A new 'tapir' from Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada - Implications for northern high latitude palaeobiogeography and tapir palaeobiology - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (227), 311-322 (journal article, English)
R. C. Hulbert, 2005 - Late Miocene Tapirus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from Florida, with description of a new species, Tapirus webbi - Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History (45), 465-494 (journal article, English)
J.-P. Zonneveld, 2003 - A new species of cf. Dilophodon (Mammalia; Perissodactyla) from the early Bridgerian of southwestern Wyoming - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (23), 652-658 (journal article, English)
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J. G. M. Thewissen, 2001 - Eocene mammal faunas from northern Indo-Pakistan - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (21), 347-366 (journal article, English)
T. Tsubamoto, 2000 - Upper premolar dentitions of Deperetella birmanica (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Deperetellidae) from the Eocene Pondaung Formation, Myanmar - Paleontological Research (4), 183-189 (journal article, English)
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M. Padilla, 1994 - Tapirus terrestris - Mammalian Species (481), 1-8 (journal article, English)
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D. R. Prothero, 1989 - The evolution of Oligocene horses - The Evolution of Perissodactyls (), 142-175 (book/book chapter, English)
R. Shi, 1989 - Late Eocene Mammalian Fauna of Huangzhuang, Qufu, Shandong - Vertebrata PalAsiatica (27), 87-102 (journal article, English)
R. M. Schoch, 1989 - A Review of the Tapiroids - The Evolution of Perissodactyls (), - (book/book chapter, English)
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T. Qi, 1987 - The middle Eocene Arshanto fauna (Mammalia) of Inner Mongolia - Annals of Carnegie Museum (56), 1-73 (journal article, English)
R. M. Schoch, 1984 - Two unusual specimens of Helaletes in the Yale Peabody Museum collections, and some comments on the ancestry of the Tapiridae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) - Postilla (193), 1-20 (journal article, English)
L. D. Agenbroad, 1984 - A robust tapir from Northern Arizona - Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science (19), 91-99 (journal article, English)
R. M. Schoch, 1984 - The Type Specimens of Tapiravus validus and ? Tapiravus rams (Mammalia, Perissodactyla), with a Review of the Genus, and a New Report of Miotapirus {Miotapirus marslandensis Schoch and Prins, new species) from Nebraska - Postilla (195), 1-12 (journal article, English)
J. A. Wilson, 1984 - Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Trans-Pecos Texas: Ceratomorpha less Amynodontidae - Pearce-Sellards Series (39), 1-47 (journal article, English)
Y. Tong, 1984 - Fossil Tapiroids from the Upper Eocene of Xichuan, Henan - Vertebrata PalAsiatica (22), 269-280 (journal article, English)
C. E. Ray, 1984 - Pleistocene Tapirs in the Eastern United States - Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication (8), 283-315 (journal article, English)
M. Ubilla, 1983 - Sobre la presencia de Tapires fósiles en el Uruguay (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Tapiridae) - Revista de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias. Serie Ciencias de la Tierra (1), 85-102 (journal article, Spanish)
M. Chow, 1982 - Mammals from the Middle Eocene Kuanchuang Formation of Xintai, Shandong - Vertebrata PalAsiatica (20), 302-313 (journal article, English)
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C. B. Schultz, 1975 - Middle and late Cenozoic tapirs from Nebraska - Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (10), 1-21 (journal article, )
M. D. Biryukov, 1974 - Novyy vid roda Teleolophus iz Severnoy Dzhungarii; (A new species of the genus Teleolophus from northern Dzhungaria" - Teriologiya, Vladivostok: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Dal'nevostochnyy Nauchnyy Tsentr (2), 78-82 (journal article, Russian)
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L. B. Radinsky, 1966 - The families of the Rhinocerotoidea (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) - Journal of Mammalogy (47), 631-639 (journal article, English)
M. Chow, 1965 - Homogalax and Heptodon of Shantung - Vertebrata PalAsiatica (9), 15-21 (journal article, Chinese)
L. B. Radinsky, 1963 - Origin and Early Evolution of North American Tapiroidea - Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin (17), 1-118 (journal article, English)
S. J. Olsen, 1960 - Age and faunal relationships of Tapiravus remains from Florida - Journal of Paleontology (34), 164-167 (journal article, English)
R. Dehm, 1958 - Paläontologische und geologische Untersuchungen im Tertiär von Pakistan - Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathewmatisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse (91), 1-54 (journal article, German)
N. Cattoi, 1957 - Una especie extinguida de Tapirus Brisson (Tapirus rioplatensis nov. sp.) - Ameghiniana (57), 15-21 (journal article, Spanish)
C. L. Gazin, 1956 - The Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Upper Eocene Strata in the Northeastern Part of the Wind River Basin, Wyoming. Part 2. the Mammalian Fauna of The Badwater Area - Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (131), 1-44 (journal article, English)
J. Hough, 1955 - An Upper Eocene Fauna from the Sage Creek Area, Beaverhead County, Montana - Journal of Paleontology (29), 22-36 (journal article, English)
C. Rusconi, 1949 - El puelchense de Buenos Aires y su fauna (Plioceno Medio) segunda parte - Publicaciones del Instituto de Fisiographia y Geologia (36), 100-262 (journal article, Spanish)
G. S. Miller, Jr., 1942 - Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition, 1936-1939. Part V.—Mammals collected by Frederick A. Ulmer, Jr. on Sumatra and Nias - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (44), 107-165 (journal article, English)
G. G. Simpson, 1941 - Discovery of jaguar bones and footprints in a cave in Tennessee - American Museum Novitates (1131), 1-12 (journal article, English)
E. C. Olson, 1940 - A late Pleistocene fauna from Herculaneum, Missouri - Journal of Geology (48), 32-57 (journal article, English)
C. Young, 1937 - An early Tertiary vertebrate fauna from Yuanchü - Bulletin of the geological society of China (17), 413-438 (journal article, )
E. M. Schlaikjer, 1937 - A New Tapir from the Lower Miocene of Wyoming - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (80), 231-251 (journal article, English)
C. Rusconi, 1934 - Tercera noticia sobre los vertebrados fosiles de las Arenas Puelchenses de Villa Ballester - Anales de la Socieded Cientifica Argentina (117), 19-37 (journal article, English)
O. A. Peterson, 1932 - New species from the Oligocene of the Uinta - Annals of Carnegie Museum (21), 61-78 (journal article, English)
H. Seton, 1931 - A New Heptodon From the Wind River of Wyoming - Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club (12), 45-48 (journal article, English)
O. Zdansky, 1930 - Die alttertiären Säugetiere Chinas nebst stratigraphischen Bemerkungen (Mammalian fauna of the Lower Tertiary from China and some stratigraphic remarks) - Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C (7), 1-87 (serial monograph, German)
W. D. Matthew, 1925 - New ungulates from the Ardyn Obo Formation of Mongolia, with faunal list and remarks on correlation - American Museum Novitates (195), 1-12 (journal article, English)
W. D. Matthew, 1925 - New mammals from the Shara Murun Eocene of Mongolia - American Museum Novitates (196), 1-11 (journal article, English)
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E. Douglass, 1902 - Fossil Mammalia of the White River beds of Montana - Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (20), 237-279 (journal article, English)
W. J. Sinclair, 1901 - The Discovery of a new fossil tapir in Oregon - The Journal of Geology (9), 702-707 (journal article, English)
H. F. Osborn, 1895 - Perissodactyls of the Lower Miocene White River beds - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (7), 343-375 (journal article, English)
H. F. Osborn, 1894 - Fossil mammals of the Lower Miocene White River beds. Collection of 1892 - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (6), 199-228 (journal article, )
J. L. Wortman, 1893 - Ancestors of the tapir from the lower Miocene of Dakota - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (5), 159-180 (journal article, English)
O. C. Marsh, 1890 - Notice of new Tertiary mammals - American Journal of Science (39), 523-525 (journal article, English)
W. B. Scott, 1883 - Two new Eocene lophiodonts - Contributions from the E. M. Museum of Geology and Archeology of Princeton College (3), 46-53 (journal article, English)
E. D. Cope, 1882 - Contributions to the history of the Vertebrata of the lower Eocene of Wyoming and New Mexico, made during 1881 - Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (20), 139-197 (journal article, English)
E. D. Cope, 1882 - Two new genera of Mammalia from the Wasatch Eocene - American Naturalist (16), 1029- (journal article, English)
E. D. Cope, 1880 - The bad lands of the Wind River and their fauna - The American Naturalist (14), 745-748 (journal article, English)
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O. C. Marsh, 1872 - Preliminary description of new Tertiary mammals. Part II - American Journal of Science (4), 202-224 (journal article, English)
O. C. Marsh, 1871 - Notice of some new fossil mammals from the Tertiary Formation - American Journal of Science (2), 35-44 (journal article, English)
J. Leidy, 1868 - Notice of some remains of extinct pachyderms - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (20), 230-233 (journal article, English)
J. Leidy, 1848 - Tapirus americanus fossilis - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (4), 180-183 (journal article, English)
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