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Taxonomy
Vicugna was named by Lesson (1842). It is extant.
It was reranked as Lama (Vicugna) by Menegaz et al. (1989).
It was assigned to Lama by Menegaz et al. (1989); to Camelidae by Carroll (1988) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Lamini by Stanley et al. (1994), Webb and Meachen (2004) and Lynch et al. (2020).
It was reranked as Lama (Vicugna) by Menegaz et al. (1989).
It was assigned to Lama by Menegaz et al. (1989); to Camelidae by Carroll (1988) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Lamini by Stanley et al. (1994), Webb and Meachen (2004) and Lynch et al. (2020).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1842 | Vicugna Lesson |
| 1988 | Vicugna Carroll |
| 1989 | Lama (Vicugna) Menegaz et al. |
| 1994 | Vicugna Stanley et al. p. 1 |
| 2004 | Vicugna Webb and Meachen p. 350 |
| 2008 | Vicugna Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 974 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2020 | Vicugna 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. Vicugna Lesson 1842
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Lama (Vicugna) gracilis Gervais and Ameghino 1881
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Invalid names: Auchenia frontosa Gervais and Ameghino 1880 [synonym], Auchenia lujanensis Ameghino 1889 [synonym], Auchenia minuta Burmeister 1891 [synonym], Hemiauchenia pristina Ameghino 1891 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Lujanian or 0.12900 to 0.01200 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.012 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.012 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Lujanian | Peru (Puno) | V. vicugna (145248) | |
| Lujanian | Argentina (Buenos Aires) | Lama vicugna (71347) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Peru | V. sp. (212475) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Argentina (Tucuman) | V. vicugna (216684) |