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Taxonomy
Blancocamelus meadei was named by Dalquest (1975) [genotype].
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1975 | Blancocamelus meadei Dalquest |
| 1980 | Blancocamelus meadei Kurten and Anderson p. 302 |
| 1998 | Blancocamelus meadei Honey et al. p. 451 |
| 2010 | Blancocamelus meadei Jimenez-Hidalgo and Carranza-Castaneda pp. 57 - 58 figs. Figure 4, Table 7 |
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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.
†Blancocamelus meadei Dalquest 1975
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. Jimenez-Hidalgo and O. Carranza-Castaneda 2010 | Limb bones exceedingly long and relatively slender (Dalquest, 1975). Limbs, especially distal elements, extremely elongated and slender as in Hemiauchenia and Aepycamelus giraffinus (Matthew in Matthew and Cook, 1909) but more than one and a half times as long as in Hemiauchenia (Honey et al., 1998). |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Blancan to the top of the Irvingtonian or 4.70000 to 0.21000 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Blancan | USA (Texas) | Blancocamelus meadei (20023 20026 20028) Leptotylopus percelsus (20050) | |
| Blancan | Mexico (Guanajuato) | Blancocamelus meadei (20077) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (New Mexico) | Blancocamelus meadei (20558) |