Aepycamelus

Aepycamelus is an extinct genus of camelids that lived during the Miocene 20.6–4.9 million years ago, existing for about 15.7 million years. Its name is derived from the Homeric Greek αἰπύς, "high and steep" and κάμηλος – "camel"; thus, "high camel"; alticamelus in Latin.

Aepycamelus

Ryan Somma · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LaminiPBDB
Diet
browser, browserPBDB, for Camelidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Camelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 6.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 91 occurrencesMiocene — about 89 of 91 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 91 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 91 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–10.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences10.0–9.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.2–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.7–6.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.9–6.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.2–5.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.4–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.2–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–900 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16.3 Mya9.4 Mya23.5 Mya900 ka

91 occurrences of Aepycamelus on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

91 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

28 formations

Valentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 43.20°N, 99.80°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.00°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 105.10°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WFleming — 31.10°N, 93.10°WFleming — 30.59°N, 94.91°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WFleming — 30.61°N, 95.15°WCaliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WTesuque — 36.50°N, 107.00°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.40°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.10°N, 82.30°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.49°N, 97.67°WBarstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WBarstow — 35.06°N, 117.08°WEsmeralda — 37.96°N, 118.03°WEsmeralda — 38.25°N, 117.90°WPunchbowl — 34.80°N, 117.00°WPunchbowl — 32.97°N, 116.68°WZia Sand — 35.70°N, 107.00°WHector — 34.80°N, 117.00°WPawnee Creek — 40.80°N, 104.20°W"middle Miocene" — 41.30°N, 105.10°WPawnee Creek Beds — 40.80°N, 103.10°WCalvert — 38.40°N, 76.50°W"Madison Valley Equivalent" — 45.20°N, 112.00°WTruckee — 39.50°N, 118.50°WRaine Ranch — 41.00°N, 115.50°WRailroad Canyon Beds — 45.00°N, 113.60°WColter — 43.90°N, 110.80°WGreen Valley — 37.81°N, 121.91°WCrowder — 34.80°N, 117.00°WSan Mateo — 32.90°N, 117.10°W

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The named rock units Aepycamelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aepycamelus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Aepycamelus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

814 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Aepycamelus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

58 references

Each of the 91 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 46 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Aepycamelus

Credit
Ryan Somma
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLamini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Macdonald 1956