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Procamelus occidentalis

Mammalia - Camelidae

Taxonomy
Procamelus occidentalis was named by Leidy (1858). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Niobrara River (coll. Hayden 1857), which is in a Barstovian/Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Loup Fork Formation of Nebraska.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Procamelus occidentalis Leidy p. 23
1873Procamelus occidentalis Leidy p. 227
1899Procamelus lacustris Douglass p. 18 figs. Plate 1, Figure 2
1901Procamelus occidentalis Matthew p. 426
1902Procamelus lacustris Hay p. 677
1902Procamelus occidentalis Hay p. 678
1998Procamelus occidentalis Honey et al. p. 451
2019Procamelus occidentalis May

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
familyCamelidae
subfamilyCamelinaeGray 1821
tribeLaminiWebb 1965
genusProcamelus
speciesoccidentalis

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.

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Invalid names: Procamelus lacustris Douglass 1899 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available