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