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
Parent taxon: Lamini according to S. Lynch et al. 2020
See also Hulbert and Whitmore 2006 and Webb and Meachen 2004
Sister taxa: Aepycamelus, Blancocamelus, Eulamaops, Hemiauchenia, Lama, Palaeolama, Pliauchenia, Procamelus, Procamelus edensis raki, Tanupolama parvus, Vicugna
Subtaxa: Pleiolama mckennai Pleiolama vera
Type: Pleiolama mckennai
Ecology: ground dwelling browser-browser
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1 collection), Mexico (9), United States (26: Alabama, Arizona, California, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Miocene of United States (5: Nebraska, Nevada)
Total: 42 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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