Oxydactylus campestris Cook 1909 (camel)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Camelidae

Full reference: H. J. Cook. 1909. Notice of a new camel from the Lower Miocene of Nebraska. American Naturalist 43:188-189

Belongs to Oxydactylus according to H. J. Cook 1909

See also Honey et al. 1998 and Loomis 1911

Sister taxa: Oxydactylus benedentatus, Oxydactylus lacota, Oxydactylus longipes, Oxydactylus lulli, Oxydactylus wyomingensis

Type specimen: No. HC125, a partial skeleton (complete skull and jaws, pelvis, sacrum, and the greater portion of the hind limbs and feet). Its type locality is Agate (Oxydactylus campestris type locality), which is in a Harrisonian terrestrial horizon in the Harrison Formation of Nebraska.

Ecology: ground dwelling browser-browser

Distribution: found only at Agate (Oxydactylus campestris type locality)

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