Tapirus lundeliusi
Tapirus lundeliusi is an extinct species of tapir that lived in Florida in the early Pleistocene. It was similar in size and shape to the still-living mountain tapir ("T. pinchaque"). Taxonomy. There are multiple pieces of evidence which indicate most, if not all, of the 5 accepted Pleistocene tapir species found in the modern-day United States ("T. californicus", "T. haysii" ("T. copei"), "T. lundeliusi", "T. merriami", "T. veroensis") may actually belong to the same species. "T. californicus" was considered to be a subspecies of "T. haysii" by Merriam, "T. californicus" and "T. veroensis" are nearly impossible  to distinguish morphologically and occupy the same time frame, being separated only by location, and "T. haysii", "T. veroensis", and "T. lundeliusi" are already considered so closely related that they occupy the same subgenus ("Helicotapirus"). Additionally, few details distinguish "T. haysii" and "T. veroensis" except size, date, and wear of teeth; and the intermediate sizes overlap greatly with many specimens originally assigned to one species, then later switched over to another.