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Taxonomy
Palaeolama was named by Gervais (1869). Its type is Palaeolama weddeli.
It was assigned to Camelinae by Simpson (1945); to Camelidae by Gervais (1869), Ameghino (1902), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Carroll (1988) and Cisneros (2005); and to Lamini by Webb (1965), Honey et al. (1998), Webb and Meachen (2004), Ruez (2005) and Lynch et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Camelinae by Simpson (1945); to Camelidae by Gervais (1869), Ameghino (1902), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Carroll (1988) and Cisneros (2005); and to Lamini by Webb (1965), Honey et al. (1998), Webb and Meachen (2004), Ruez (2005) and Lynch et al. (2020).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1869 | Palaeolama Gervais |
| 1902 | Palaeolama Ameghino |
| 1945 | Palaeolama Simpson p. 150 |
| 1965 | Palaeolama Webb p. 44 |
| 1980 | Palaeolama Kurten and Anderson p. 308 |
| 1988 | Palaeolama Carroll |
| 1998 | Palaeolama Honey et al. p. 451 |
| 2004 | Palaeolama Webb and Meachen p. 350 |
| 2005 | Palaeolama Cisneros p. 250 |
| 2005 | Palaeolama Ruez, Jr. p. 742 |
| 2020 | Palaeolama 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. †Palaeolama Gervais 1869
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Subg. †Palaeolama (Astylolama) Churcher 1965
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†Palaeolama (Astylolama) aequatorialis Hoffstetter 1952
Subg. †Palaeolama (Palaeolama) Churcher 1965
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†Palaeolama (Palaeolama) major Liais 1872
†Palaeolama (Palaeolama) paradoxa Cabrera 1935
†Palaeolama (Palaeolama) weddellii Gervais 1855
†Palaeolama brevirostris Rusconi 1930
†Palaeolama castelnaudi Gervais 1854
†Palaeolama crassa Hoffstetter 1952
†Palaeolama crequii Boule and Thevenin 1920
†Palaeolama leptognata Ameghino 1889
†Palaeolama mirifica Simpson 1929 [stout-legged llama]
†Palaeolama niedae Guérin and Faure 1999
†Palaeolama promesolithica Ameghino 1889
†Palaeolama weddeli Gervais 1855
†Palaeolama weddelli Gervais 1855
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available