Camelini

Camelini
Temporal range: Eocene–Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Family:Camelidae
Subfamily:Camelinae
Tribe:Camelini
Nordmann (1850)
Genera

Camelus
Camelops
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Camelini is a tribe of terrestrial herbivore the family Camelidae, endemic to Asia, North America, and Africa from the Late Eocene to the present.[1] It includes the living genus Camelus as the type genus. At least one genus, Eulamaops, reached South America.[2]

Taxonomy

Camelini was named by Gray (1821). It was assigned to Camelinae by Stanley et al. (1994).[3]

Genera

References

  1. PaleoBiology Database: Camelini, basic info
  2. PaleoBiology Database: Eulamaops, basic info
  3. H. F. Stanley, M. Kadwell, and J. C. Wheeler. 1994. Molecular evolution of the family Camelidae: a mitochondrial DNA study. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 256:1-6


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