Camelini
| Camelini Temporal range: Eocene–Recent | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Camelidae |
| Subfamily: | Camelinae |
| Tribe: | Camelini Nordmann (1850) |
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Camelini is a tribe of terrestrial herbivore the family Camelidae, endemic to Asia, North America, and Africa from the Late Eocene to the present.[1] It includes the living genus Camelus as the type genus. At least one reached South America[2]
Taxonomy
Camelini was named by Gray (1821). It was assigned to Camelinae by Stanley et al. (1994).[3]
Genera
- Camelus
- †Aepycamelus (syn. Alticamelus, Homocamelus)
- †Aguascalientia
- †Alforjas
- †Australocamelus
- †Blancocamelus
- †Camelops
- †Cuyamacamelus
- †Eulamaops
- †Floridatragulus (syn. Hypermekops)
- †Gentilicamelus
- †Gigantocamelus
- †Hesperocamelus
- †Megacamelus
- †Megatylopus
- †Michenia
- †Miotylopus (syn. Dyseotylopus)
- †Nothokemas
- †Paracamelus
- †Paralabis
- †Paratylopus
- †Pliauchenia
- †Poebrodon
- †Poebrotherium
- †Priscocamelus
- †Procamelus
- †Protolabis
- †Pseudolabis
- †Tanymykter
- †Titanotylopus
References
- ↑ PaleoBiology Database: Camelini, basic info
- ↑ PaleoBiology Database: Eulamaops, basic info
- ↑ H. F. Stanley, M. Kadwell, and J. C. Wheeler. 1994. Molecular evolution of the family Camelidae: a mitochondrial DNA study. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 256:1-6
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