Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Alternative combinations: Alticamelus elrodi, Procamelus elrodi
Full reference: E. Douglass. 1909. Description of a New Species of Procamelus From the Upper Miocene of Montana with Notes Upon Procamelus madisonius Douglass. Annals of Carnegie Museum 5(5):159-165
Belongs to Aepycamelus according to J. G. Honey et al. 1998
See also Douglass 1909, Gregory 1942, McGrew 1938, Stirton 1929, Tabrum and Nichols 2001 and Webb 1969
Sister taxa: Aepycamelus alexandrae, Aepycamelus bradyi, Aepycamelus giraffinus, Aepycamelus major, Aepycamelus priscus, Aepycamelus procerus, Aepycamelus robustus, Aepycamelus stocki, Alticamelus altus
Type specimen: CM 777, a partial skeleton (a nearly complete skull and mandible with the greater portion of the neck). Its type locality is East of Hyde Post-office, which is in a Barstovian terrestrial shale/conglomerate in Montana.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser-browser
Distribution: found only at East of Hyde Post-office
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