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    The document summarizes several extinct tropical animal species from Central and South America, including: 1) The Cuban macaw, native to Cuba, went extinct in the late 19th century. 2) Sloane's urania, a species of moth endemic to Jamaica, was last reported in 1894 or 1895 but may have survived until 1908. 3) The golden toad, once abundant in Costa Rica, went extinct. 4) The Atitlán grebe was endemic to Lake Atitlán in Guatemala at 1700m altitude and is now extinct. 5) Several extinct prehistoric mammals are also mentioned, including Acrecebus, Didolodus, Ferugliotherium

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    The document summarizes several extinct tropical animal species from Central and South America, including: 1) The Cuban macaw, native to Cuba, went extinct in the late 19th century. 2) Sloane's urania, a species of moth endemic to Jamaica, was last reported in 1894 or 1895 but may have survived until 1908. 3) The golden toad, once abundant in Costa Rica, went extinct. 4) The Atitlán grebe was endemic to Lake Atitlán in Guatemala at 1700m altitude and is now extinct. 5) Several extinct prehistoric mammals are also mentioned, including Acrecebus, Didolodus, Ferugliotherium

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    The document summarizes several extinct tropical animal species from Central and South America, including: 1) The Cuban macaw, native to Cuba, went extinct in the late 19th century. 2) Sloane's urania, a species of moth endemic to Jamaica, was last reported in 1894 or 1895 but may have survived until 1908. 3) The golden toad, once abundant in Costa Rica, went extinct. 4) The Atitlán grebe was endemic to Lake Atitlán in Guatemala at 1700m altitude and is now extinct. 5) Several extinct prehistoric mammals are also mentioned, including Acrecebus, Didolodus, Ferugliotherium

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    Extinct Animals

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    The document summarizes several extinct tropical animal species from Central and South America, including: 1) The Cuban macaw, native to Cuba, went extinct in the late 19th century. 2) Sloane's urania, a species of moth endemic to Jamaica, was last reported in 1894 or 1895 but may have survived until 1908. 3) The golden toad, once abundant in Costa Rica, went extinct. 4) The Atitlán grebe was endemic to Lake Atitlán in Guatemala at 1700m altitude and is now extinct. 5) Several extinct prehistoric mammals are also mentioned, including Acrecebus, Didolodus, Ferugliotherium

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    Extinct Tropical Animals (Central and South America)

    Cuban macaw (Ara tricolor): The Cuban macaw or Cuban red macaw was a species of macaw
    native to the main island of Cuba and the nearby Isla de la Juventud that became extinct in the
    late 19th century.

    Urania sloanus, or Sloane's urania, was a species of moth of the family Uraniidae endemic to
    Jamaica. It was last reported in 1894 or 1895, but possibly survived until at least 1908. The
    species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779.

    Golden toad: The golden toad is an extinct species of true toad that was once abundant in a
    small, high-altitude region of about 4 square kilometers in an area north of the city of
    Monteverde, Costa Rica. It was endemic to elfin cloud forest.

    Atitlán grebe (Podilymbus gigas): The Atitlán grebe, also known as giant grebe, giant pied-
    billed grebe, or poc, is an extinct water bird, a relative of the pied-billed grebe. It was endemic
    at the Lago de Atitlán in Guatemala at an altitude of 1700 m asl.

    Acrecebus is a prehistoric cebid monkey from the Late Miocene Solimões Formation of Acre
    State, Brazil and Bolivia. The only species known is A. fraileyi.
    Extinct Tropical Animals (Central and South America)
    Didolodus is an extinct genus of mammals from Middle Eocene Argentina. It is an ungulate
    mammal of uncertain affinities, possibly related to Litopterna, though this is uncertain due to
    the lack of reliable post-cranial remains, and for now remains Meridiungulata incertae sedis.

    Ferugliotherium is a genus of fossil mammals in the family Ferugliotheriidae from the


    Campanian and/or Maastrichtian period of Argentina. It contains a single species,
    Ferugliotherium windhauseni, which was first described in 1986.

    Macrauchenia was a large, long-necked and long-limbed, three-toed native South American
    mammal in the order Litopterna.

    Glyptodonts are an extinct clade of large, heavily armoured armadillos. They arose in South
    America around 20 million years ago and spread to southern North America after the
    continents became connected several million years ago. The best-known genus within the
    group is Glyptodont

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