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was first described in 1923 William Diller Matthew and Walter Granger based on fossils found by the American Museum of Natural History during the Central Asiatic Expeditions of 1920–1930. The fossils had been recovered just a few miles from the site where many of the teeth described by Schlosser had
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was larger than any living tapir, with an estimated weight of about 623 kilograms (1,373 lb). The species was also placed in its own genus of
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Matthew, William Diller; Granger, Walter; Andrews, Roy Chapman (1923). "New fossil mammals from the Pliocene of Sze-chuan, China".
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Paleontologist Max Schlosser described several teeth purchased from Chinese drug stores in 1903 that he assigned to
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On fossil and prehistoric remains of Tapirus from Java, Sumatra and China.
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Janis, Christine M.; Scott, Kathleen M.; Jacobs, Louis L. (1998-05-28).
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Index

Tapirus augustus
Middle
Late Pleistocene

Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Perissodactyla
Tapiridae
Tapirus
Binomial name
Synonyms

tapir
southern China
Vietnam
Laos
Taiwan
Java
Borneo
Middle
Late Pleistocene
Holocene
Tapirus

Sichuan
China

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