Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Synonym: Procamelus dakotensis Green 1956
Full reference: J. T. Gregory. 1939. Two New Camels from the Late Lower Pliocene of South Dakota. Journal of Mammalogy 20(3):366-368
Belongs to Procamelus according to S. R. May 2019
See also Green 1956, Gregory 1939, Honey et al. 1998 and Webb 1969
Sister taxa: Procamelus coconiensis, Procamelus coconinensis, Procamelus leptocolon, Procamelus leptognathus, Procamelus occidentalis, Procamelus virginiensis
Type specimens:
- Procamelus grandis: UCMP 32864, a skull (skull and lower jaws)
- Procamelus dakotensis: Its type locality is Wolf Creek (SDSM V-527), which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in South Dakota.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of Honduras (2 collections), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of El Salvador (1), United States (39: California, Florida, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 43 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.