Pleiolama mckennai Webb and Meachen 2004 (camel)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Camelidae

Full reference: S. D. Webb and J. A. Meachen. 2004. On the Origin of Lamine Camelidae Including a New Genus From the Late Miocene of the High Plains. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 36(1):349-362

Belongs to Pleiolama according to S. D. Webb and J. A. Meachen 2004

Sister taxon: Pleiolama vera

Type specimen: F:AM 25078, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Kat Quarry, which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Ash Hollow Formation of Nebraska.

Ecology: ground dwelling browser-browser

Distribution: found only at Kat Quarry

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