Oxydactylus lulli Loomis 1911 (camel)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Camelidae

Full reference: F. B. Loomis. 1911. The camels of the Harrison beds, with three new species. American Journal of Science 31(181):65-70

Belongs to Oxydactylus according to F. B. Loomis 1911

See also Honey et al. 1998

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

Type specimen: YPM 10327, a partial skeleton (a sknll complete as to the jaws and dentition, bnt lacking the major pm·t of the brain case and being considerably crushe!l laterally, and also of incomplete li). Its type locality is Raw Hide Buttes (Upper Harrison), which is in an Arikareean terrestrial horizon in Wyoming.

Ecology: ground dwelling browser-browser

Distribution: found only at Raw Hide Buttes (Upper Harrison)

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