Tapirus cristatellus

{{Short description|Extinct species of mammal}}

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| fossil_range= Late Pleistocene

| extinct = yes

| genus = Tapirus

| species = cristatellus

| authority = H. Winge, 1906

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Tapirus cristatellus is an extinct species of tapir from the Pleistocene of South America. Remains are known from Brazil, specifically the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia.{{cite journal |last1=Holanda |first1=E.C. |last2=Rincón |first2=A.D. |title=Tapirs from the Pleistocene of Venezuela |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |date=2012 |volume=57 |issue=3 |pages=463–473 |doi=10.4202/app.2011.0001 |doi-access=free }}

The now extinct tapirs of Pleistocene North America may have been derived from T. cristatellus.{{cite journal |last1=Holanda |first1=E.C. |last2=Ferrero |first2=B.S. |title=Reappraisal of the Genus Tapirus (Perissodactyla, Tapiridae): Systematics and Phylogenetic Affinities of the South American Tapirs |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |date=2012 |volume=20 |pages=33–44 |doi=10.1007/s10914-012-9196-z|hdl=11336/18792 |hdl-access=free }}