Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Alternative combination: Oxydactylus longirostris
Full reference: O. A. Peterson. 1911. A new camel from the Miocene of western Nebraska. Annals of Carnegie Museum 7(2):260-266
Belongs to Tanymykter according to J. G. Honey 2007
See also Honey et al. 1998 and Peterson 1911
Sister taxon: Tanymykter brachyodontus
Type specimen: CM 2498, a partial skeleton (Skull, lower jaws, greater portion of the neck, fragments of humerus, and ulno-radius). Its type locality is Whistle Creek (Upper), which is in a Harrisonian terrestrial horizon in the Marsland Formation of Nebraska.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser-browser
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (1: Nebraska collection)
• Harrisonian of United States (1: Nebraska)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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