Camelops

Camelops
Temporal range: Middle Pliocene to Late Pleistocene, 3.2–0.013 Ma
Mounted skeleton of Camelops hesternus in the George C. Page Museum, Los Angeles
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Camelidae
Subfamily: Camelinae
Tribe: Camelini
Genus: Camelops
Leidy, 1854
Species

C. kansanus Leidy, 1854
C. hesternus Leidy, 1873 (type)
C. minidokae Hay, 1927

Camelops is an extinct genus of camel that lived in North and Central America, ranging from Alaska to Honduras,[1] from the middle Pliocene to the end of the Pleistocene. It is more closely related to living camels than to lamines (llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos), making it a true camel of the Camelini tribe.[1][2] Its name is derived from the Ancient Greek κάμηλος (cámēlos, "camel")[3] and ὄψ (óps, "face"),[4] i.e. "camel-face".

  1. ^ a b Heintzman, Peter D.; Zazula, Grant D.; Cahill, James A.; Reyes, Alberto V.; MacPhee, Ross D.E.; Shapiro, Beth (2 June 2015). "Genomic Data from Extinct North American Camelops Revise Camel Evolutionary History". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32 (9): 2433–2440. doi:10.1093/molbev/msv128. PMID 26037535.
  2. ^ Saitou, Naruya; Shokat, Shayire (2017). "DNA Analyses of Camels". Journal of Arid Land Studies. 26 (4): 223–226.
  3. ^ κάμηλος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
  4. ^ ὄψ. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project