| has gloss | eng: This is a list of extinct animals of South America. Animals that became extinct in the Holocene period in South America. Pleistocene extinctions * Amazonian smilodon, Smilodon populator * Arctodus, short-faced bears * Macrauchenia, a litoptern * Xenorhinotherium, a litoptern * 12 genera of Ground sloths * At least 8 Glyptodont genera * Cuvieronius, a gomphothere * Stegomastodon, a gomphothere * Deer: Antifer, Morenelaphus, Charitoceros, Agalmaceros * Stout-legged Llama * Hippidion and Onohippidium, small horses * Toxodon, a notoungulate * Mixotoxodon, a notoungulate * Neochoerus, a giant capybara * Canis nehringi, wolf |