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Taxonomy
Aepycamelus was named by Macdonald (1956). It is not extant. Its type is Alticamelus giraffinus.
It was assigned to Aepycamelinae by Webb (1965); to Camelidae by Macdonald (1956), Carroll (1988); and to Lamini by Honey et al. (1998), May (2019), Lynch et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Aepycamelinae by Webb (1965); to Camelidae by Macdonald (1956), Carroll (1988); and to Lamini by Honey et al. (1998), May (2019), Lynch et al. (2020).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1901 | Alticamelus Matthew |
| 1945 | Alticamelus Simpson p. 150 |
| 1956 | Aepycamelus Macdonald |
| 1965 | Aepycamelus Webb p. 44 |
| 1988 | Aepycamelus Carroll |
| 1998 | Aepycamelus Honey et al. p. 451 |
| 2019 | Aepycamelus May |
| 2020 | Aepycamelus Lynch et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Aepycamelus Macdonald 1956
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†Aepycamelus alexandrae Davidson 1923
†Aepycamelus bradyi Macdonald 1956
†Aepycamelus elrodi Douglass 1909
†Aepycamelus giraffinus Matthew 1909
†Aepycamelus major Leidy 1886
†Aepycamelus priscus Matthew and Cook 1909
†Aepycamelus procerus Matthew and Cook 1909
†Aepycamelus robustus Leidy 1858
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Invalid names: Homocamelus caninus Leidy 1869 [synonym], Procamelus madisonius Douglass 1899 [synonym], Protolabis prehensilis Cope 1881 [synonym]
†Aepycamelus stocki Henshaw 1942
Invalid names: Alticamelus Matthew 1901 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Hemingfordian to the top of the Miocene or 18.50000 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (91 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Miocene | USA (Nevada) | A. sp. (18836) | |
| Miocene | USA (South Dakota) | A. sp. (18183) | |
| Miocene | USA (Louisiana) | A. sp. (163859) | |
| Miocene | USA (California) | A. sp. (19426 19428 19534 19597) Hesperocamelus alexandrae (19414) | |
| Burdigalian - Langhian | USA (Maryland) | A. sp. (18518) | |
| Early/Lower Hemingfordian | USA (New Mexico) | Homocamelus sp. (19388) | |
| Hemingfordian | USA (California) | A. sp. (19233 19358 19586) | |
| Hemingfordian | USA (Colorado) | Homocamelus also (17908) | |
| Hemingfordian | USA (Wyoming) | A. sp. (17957) | |
| Hemingfordian | USA (New Mexico) | Homocamelus sp. (19434) | |
| Late/Upper Hemingfordian | USA (California) | A. sp. (19369) | |
| Hemingfordian - Barstovian | USA (California) | A. alexandrae (19235) | |
| Barstovian | USA (Wyoming) | A. sp. (19099) | |
| Barstovian | USA (Montana) | Procamelus elrodi (189002) | |
| Barstovian | USA (Texas) | Alticamelus sp. (18628 18637 207493) | |
| Barstovian | USA (Louisiana) | A. sp. (18621) | |
| Barstovian | USA (Idaho) | A. sp. (19013) | |
| Barstovian | USA (Nevada) | A. sp. (19088) Alticamelus stocki (19097) | |
| Barstovian | USA (Nebraska) | A. robustus (18164 18192 18209 18261 18284 18353 18442) A. sp. (18089 18090 18124 18208 18343) Alticamelus sp. (18062 18123) Homocamelus caninus (18216) | |
| Barstovian | USA (New Mexico) | A. sp. (19287 19449 19535) | |
| Barstovian | USA (California) | A. sp. (19510 214888 214889) Hesperocamelus alexandrae (19292 19392) | |
| Early/Lower Barstovian | USA (New Mexico) | A. sp. (19547) | |
| Early/Lower Barstovian | USA (Texas) | A. sp. (18665) | |
| Early/Lower Barstovian | USA (California) | A. alexandrae (93107) | |
| Early/Lower Barstovian | USA (Nebraska) | A. procerus (17904) | |
| Early/Lower Barstovian | USA (Montana) | A. sp. (62877) | |
| Barstovian - Clarendonian | USA (Montana) | Alticamelus stocki (18805) | |
| Barstovian - Clarendonian | USA (Oklahoma) | A. robustus (170200) | |
| Barstovian - Clarendonian | USA (Nebraska) | A. sp. (18077) | |
| Barstovian - Clarendonian | USA (Colorado) | A. giraffinus (18445) | |
| Langhian | USA (California) | A. sp. (19595) | |
| Clarendonian | USA (Texas) | A. sp. (18244 18623) Alticamelus sp. (207452) Megatylopus sp. (18645) | |
| Clarendonian | USA (South Dakota) | A. sp. (18268 18428) | |
| Clarendonian | USA (Oklahoma) | Alticamelus sp. (18045) | |
| Clarendonian | USA (Nebraska) | A. major (18233) A. sp. (18095 18106 18156 18251 18324 188779) Procamelus robustus (18176) | |
| Clarendonian | USA (California) | Alticamelus sp. (19185) | |
| Clarendonian | USA (Nevada) | A. bradyi (18835) A. sp. (19035) Procamelus robustus (18888) | |
| Late/Upper Clarendonian | USA (Florida) | A. major (18554) | |
| Clarendonian - Hemphillian | USA (Wyoming) | A. sp. (18146 18424) | |
| Late/Upper Clarendonian - Hemphillian | USA (Texas) | Alticamelus sp. (18307) | |
| Hemphillian | USA (Oklahoma) | A. sp. (18034 18088) | |
| Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | A. major (18601 26549) A. sp. (18564) Auchenia major (18563) | |
| early Early Hemphillian - late Early Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | A. sp. (18539) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian - Blancan | USA (Indiana) | A. sp. (18320) |