Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Alternative combinations: Hemiauchenia vera, Pliauchenia vera, Tanupolama vera
Full reference: W. D. Matthew. 1909. Faunal lists of the Tertiary Mammalia of the West. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 361:91-138
Belongs to Pleiolama according to S. D. Webb and J. A. Meachen 2004
See also Breyer 1977, Gregory 1939, Gregory 1942, Hibbard 1963, Honey et al. 1998, Hulbert and Whitmore 2006, Kelly 1998, Matthew 1909, Webb 1965 and Webb 1974
Sister taxon: Pleiolama mckennai
Type specimen: Its type locality is Long Island Quarry, which is in a Hemphillian terrestrial horizon in the Ogallala Formation of Kansas
Ecology: ground dwelling browser-browser
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1 collection), Mexico (9), United States (25: Alabama, Arizona, California, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Miocene of United States (4: Nebraska, Nevada)
Total: 40 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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