Camelini

Camelini is a tribe of camelids including all camelids more closely related to modern camels (Camelus) than to Lamini, from which camelines split approximately 17 million years ago. The tribe originated in North America, with the genus Paracamelus migrating over the Bering Land Bridge into Eurasia during the Late Miocene, around 6 million years ago, becoming ancestral to Camelus. The last member of Camelini in North America was Camelops, which became extinct as part of the Quaternary extinction event at the end of the Late Pleistocene, around 12,000 years ago.

Camelini

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CamelinaePBDB
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 9.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 459 occurrencesMiocene — about 80 of 459 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 125 of 459 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 253 of 459 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 12 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 12 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 12 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 12 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 12 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 18 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 34 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 43 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 45 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 40 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 62 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 140 occurrences9.4 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

459 occurrences of Camelini on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

459 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

78 formations

Palm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WBlanco — 33.81°N, 101.21°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WBlanco — 33.77°N, 101.28°WAsh Hollow — 41.20°N, 101.80°WAsh Hollow — 42.39°N, 98.10°WAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 41.70°N, 103.10°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 41.40°N, 102.40°WAsh Hollow — 41.10°N, 103.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WSt. David — 32.00°N, 110.20°WSt. David — 31.97°N, 110.30°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°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°WShungura — 5.06°N, 36.03°EShungura — 5.01°N, 36.01°EBon Homme Gravel — 43.00°N, 97.40°WKingsdown — 37.05°N, 100.50°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WPauba — 33.90°N, 117.00°WChamita — 36.50°N, 107.00°WGila Conglomerate — 32.84°N, 110.00°WGila Conglomerate — 32.58°N, 109.48°WGila Conglomerate — 32.70°N, 109.10°WGila Conglomerate — 32.70°N, 109.00°WRexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WCamp Rice — 32.00°N, 106.70°WCamp Rice — 31.50°N, 105.20°WTule — 34.50°N, 101.70°WTule — 34.50°N, 101.30°WTule — 34.51°N, 101.41°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.49°N, 97.67°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WManix — 34.80°N, 117.00°WMcPherson — 38.30°N, 97.60°WFloral — 50.80°N, 103.90°WFloral — 52.20°N, 106.70°WFloral — 52.10°N, 106.70°WKoobi Fora — 4.27°N, 36.29°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°EKairubak suite — 37.33°N, 68.97°EKairubak suite — 38.60°N, 69.11°EKairubak suite — 38.35°N, 69.97°EHunter Creek Sandstone — 39.53°N, 119.93°W

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The named rock units Camelini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 54 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 250 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Camelini and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Camelini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,144 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 421 sites for Camelini, 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

247 references

Each of the 459 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. 235 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 content1

Picture of Camelini

Credit
Msrathore0007
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Camelini was found in Sketchfab.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Webb 1965