Some species of non-extinct animals which have completely disappeared from Europe or which now have a much smaller range.

Dholes, little buttonquails, and marsh owls also are now “ missing” in europe Personally I think the “ wapiti” remains are Central Asian Red Deer, but they may just be a local extinct subspecies of Red Dear also, or a wapiti, genetic information would be nice

Does anyone have info on the former range of asian water buffalo, like a map of fossils? 

It is now common knowledge that Europe was practically endowed with a greater biodiversity in the past, like the rest of the world, even if the megafauna of the Pleistocene usually gets all the attention for this topic, it must be remembered that even in the Holocene the fauna on this continent was still rich compared to today, with some iconic Pleistocene species that persisted in Europe, such as the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), the woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), the Irish elk or giant deer (Megaloceros giganteus) and steppe bison (Bison priscus), alongside many species were once present and even common on the continent but which today survive outside of it, not to mention those still present but with restricted or isolated areas compared to when in the past they extended into throughout Europe or even beyond, today we will see only some of these animals, focusing above all on some that are little spoken about.

We can start with an animal that although today is very well known and iconic is actually little talked about on this topic, the elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) was a very common species of deer during the Pleistocene of Europe, decreasing in population when the open spaces that they inhabited became rarer, it is thought that this occurred due to the disappearance of the larger megafauna that maintained the small prairies and open scrublands in this region, in fact this species seemed to survive on the continent in the Holocene, approximately up to 3000 BC, only in an isolated population in the Alps, thanks to the open habitats they persisted even without the presence of the megafauna due to the Alpine climate, while in the rest of Europe they were replaced by the red deer (Cervus elaphus), which was more accustomed to closed spaces, the thing to note is that previously these two species both coexisted in Europe during the Pleistocene, it's just that they seemed to avoid competition thanks to habitat preference.

Another ungulate that does not seem to get much attention due to its presence in Europe is the wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee), but perhaps this can be explained because it was not an inhabitant of the European peninsula, unlike its extinct cousin the European water buffalo (Bubalus murrensis), in fact this species now restricted to southern Asia seemed to have also been present in the southern part of the Caucasus, with findings for example in Armenia, with a range that also extended into the western part of the Middle East and part of Turkey, here would have had to face various predators, including one that this species continues to face in Asia today, the disappeared apex predators of these areas, the tiger (Panthera tigris), with the population of these areas known as the Caspian tiger, inhabited the various habitats of western Asia -Central and Eastern Europe, with evidence to the west indicating their presence in the southern part of Ukraine, but it was not the only big cat completely extirpated from Europe.

This other great apex predator which has now completely disappeared from Europe is ironically one of the most present and important symbols for the culture of this continent, the common Lion (Panthera leo), the last species of lion remaining today, which seemed to have colonized the part southern Europe after the retreat to the north of the steppe lion (Panthera spelaea), more suited to temperate and Mediterranean climates, this species extended throughout practically all of southern Europe, from the Iberian peninsula and the southern coast of France, up to the island of Sicily of Italy, reaching the Balkans, even up to western Turkey and the southern part of the Caucasus, but seemed absent in the northern part of the Black Sea, these populations seemed to be part, or at least were closely related, to the modern Asian subspecies, they seemed having disappeared completely from southern Europe around the 4th or 3rd century BCE, with the last specimens surviving in the eastern part of the Balkan peninsula.

If we talk about the disappeared marine life of Europe, various species may come to mind that have witnessed the reduction of their range, but there is one that has completely disappeared from this continent and does not seem to be talked about much, the Mediterranean in fact seemed to host in the past two species of sawfish, which probably also inhabit the deltas and rivers of this basin, the largetooth sawfish (Pristis pristis) and the smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata), both which seemed to reach enormous dimensions compared to today, with the first species which reached 7 meters or 23 feet in length, and the second, a little smaller, reached around 5 meters or 16.4 feet; in the past these species actually seemed to be recognized as vagrants in the Mediterranean, but more recent evidence seems to demonstrate that this was a stable and reproducing population, and they were not the only giants to reproduce in this sea.

I saw wild flamingos in southern Spain in March of this year.

Edit. “Or have smaller range”

What about brown hyenas, dholes, hippos, leopards and wolverines?

Did the muskox make it to the holocene? It seems like it could have survived in Norway for way longer, but never got the chance, presumably due to intense hunting on the European mainland during the pleistocene?

During the Pleistocene, many Arctic species once lived further south than they do today. Polar bears and snowy owls lived as far south as Iberia once. Arctic foxes lived further south than they do now as well.

also, leopards and quite possibly ancestral Lycaon (African wild dogs ) lived in Europe.

Great post OP 👍 ignore the spergs screeching "SOURCE!?!!!!?" "What do you define as REDUCED!?!!!!" Like a bunch of Chabad Talmudic Pipul wannabes. TIL from you.

European lion may be its own subspecies or a population of Northern lion (Panthera leo leo), which includes the Asiatic lion, the Atlas lion and West African lion (now considered the same subspecies).

Apparently another population of Wapiti lived in parts of Sweden for a time before going extinct, though it was likely a different subspecies given how isolated it was from the relict population in the Alps

A dwarf form also existed on Capri Island near Italy (Cervus canadensis tyrrhenicus)