Eulamaops
Temporal range: Mid-Late Pleistocene (Lujanian)
~0.718–0.012 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Camelidae
Subfamily: Camelinae
Tribe: Camelini
Genus: †Eulamaops
Ameghino, 1889
Species

E. paralellus

Eulamaops is an extinct genus of camelid belonging to the tribe Lamini, endemic to South America during the Pleistocene (Lujanian, 781,000—12,000 years ago), existing about 0.769 million years.[1] Fossil remains of Eulamaops have been found in the Luján Formation in Argentina[1] in areas that would have been open grass and shrub land. [2] It is estimated to have weighed 150 kilograms [3]

Taxonomy

Eulamaops was named by Ameghino (1889). It was assigned to the Camelidae by Carroll (1988).

References

  1. ^ a b "PaleoBiology Database: Eulamaops, basic info". Archived from the original on 2012-10-13. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
  2. ^ Cassini, Guillermo H.; Muñoz, Nahuel A.; Merino, Mariano L. (2016). "Evolutionary History of South American Artiodactyla". Contribuciones del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (6, Historia evolutiva y paleobiogeográfica de los vertebrados de América del Sur): 311–322. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-02-06. Retrieved 2020-10-18 – via Research Gate.
  3. ^ Vizcaíno, Sergio. "On the Evolution of Large Size in Mammalian Herbivores of Cenozoic Faunas of Southern South America".


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