Camelidae

Camelidae is a family of mammals belonging to the ungulate order Artiodactyla and the only living family in the suborder Tylopoda. The seven extant species of camelid are divided into two tribes, Camelini, including dromedary camels, Bactrian camels and wild Bactrian camels, and Lamini, including llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos.

Camelidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
camelPBDB
Sits inside
TylopodaPBDB
Diet
browser, browserPBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 39.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 45.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 43 of 2093 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 97 of 2093 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1028 of 2093 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 255 of 2093 occurrencesPleistocene — about 653 of 2093 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 14 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 19 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 27 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 21 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 5 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 9 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 11 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 12 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 14 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 39 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 45 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 45 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 86 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 95 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 100 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 100 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 124 occurrences11–9.4 Mya — about 124 occurrences9.4–7.8 Mya — about 106 occurrences7.8–6.2 Mya — about 106 occurrences6.2–4.7 Mya — about 109 occurrences4.7–3.1 Mya — about 148 occurrences3.1–1.6 Mya — about 185 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 546 occurrences39.7 Mya11.7 ka46.8 Mya0 Mya

2,093 occurrences of Camelidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

2,093 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

259 formations

Valentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.80°N, 99.70°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 40.10°N, 98.50°WValentine — 42.90°N, 98.80°WValentine — 43.20°N, 99.80°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 41.20°N, 101.80°WAsh Hollow — 42.39°N, 98.10°WAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 42.60°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.00°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 105.10°WAsh Hollow — 41.70°N, 103.10°WAsh Hollow — 43.20°N, 100.70°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WAsh Hollow — 41.40°N, 102.40°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 41.10°N, 103.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 99.70°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WBrule — 42.90°N, 105.20°WBrule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 46.90°N, 102.80°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WBrule — 42.00°N, 104.20°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 43.85°N, 102.50°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 43.60°N, 102.45°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.00°N, 104.50°WTesuque — 36.50°N, 107.00°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WCaliente — 35.10°N, 120.00°WCaliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WBlanco — 33.81°N, 101.21°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WBlanco — 33.77°N, 101.28°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.53°N, 97.74°WGoliad — 28.34°N, 97.96°WFleming — 30.60°N, 95.20°WFleming — 31.00°N, 93.67°WFleming — 30.61°N, 95.13°WFleming — 31.10°N, 93.10°WFleming — 30.75°N, 95.27°WFleming — 30.59°N, 94.91°WFleming — 30.70°N, 94.70°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WFleming — 30.30°N, 95.70°WFleming — 31.00°N, 93.40°WFleming — 31.05°N, 93.21°WJohn Day — 44.70°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.90°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.50°N, 119.30°WJohn Day — 44.33°N, 119.57°WJohn Day — 44.83°N, 119.74°WJohn Day — 44.72°N, 119.66°WJohn Day — 44.85°N, 121.27°WBarstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WBarstow — 35.07°N, 117.08°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.08°N, 100.67°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.20°N, 100.70°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.10°N, 100.80°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.03°N, 100.75°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.00°N, 100.70°WMR Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WBopesta — 35.19°N, 118.28°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WBopesta — 35.18°N, 118.24°WOgallala — 39.80°N, 99.40°WOgallala — 36.70°N, 101.40°WOgallala — 38.90°N, 101.70°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.77°WOgallala — 43.20°N, 107.10°WOgallala — 35.68°N, 99.60°WOgallala — 35.80°N, 99.63°WOgallala — 35.76°N, 99.65°WOgallala — 35.62°N, 99.84°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 107.10°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 108.20°WDelaho — 29.20°N, 103.20°WDelaho — 29.09°N, 103.46°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.40°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.10°N, 82.30°WAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WPunchbowl — 34.80°N, 117.00°WPunchbowl — 34.00°N, 118.20°WPunchbowl — 32.97°N, 116.68°WMilk Creek — 34.50°N, 112.50°WMarsland — 42.40°N, 103.80°WMarsland — 42.42°N, 103.87°WMarsland — 42.10°N, 105.00°WMarsland — 42.00°N, 104.20°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WChadron — 43.60°N, 102.45°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.10°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.40°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 42.90°N, 105.20°WChadron — 46.10°N, 103.30°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWhite River — 40.80°N, 103.10°WWhite River — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWhite River — 42.00°N, 104.20°W

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The named rock units Camelidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 235 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 851 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Camelidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Camelidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,518 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,440 sites for Camelidae, and this reads 240 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

694 references

Each of the 2,093 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. 682 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 content3

Picture of Camelidae

Credit
de:Benutzer:BS Thurner Hof
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Camelidae indet. · joda:15610

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1821