Lamini

Lamini is a tribe of the subfamily Camelinae. It contains one extant genus with four species, all exclusively from South America: llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos. The former two are domesticated species, while the latter two are only found in the wild. The four species can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. Additionally, there are several extinct genera.

Lamini

Frettie · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
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 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 708 occurrencesMiocene — about 283 of 708 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 81 of 708 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 328 of 708 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 12 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 15 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 15 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 15 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 15 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 23 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 23 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 23 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 23 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 19 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 19 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 19 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 20 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 20 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 19 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 21 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 26 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 31 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 43 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 66 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 223 occurrences16.3 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

708 occurrences of Lamini 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

708 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

120 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 — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°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 — 43.20°N, 100.70°WAsh Hollow — 41.70°N, 103.10°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 — 42.80°N, 99.70°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.53°N, 97.74°WGoliad — 28.34°N, 97.96°WTarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WTarija — 21.50°S, 64.75°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.40°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.10°N, 82.30°WLujan — 36.78°S, 59.87°WLujan — 38.57°S, 58.70°WLujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°WLujan — 38.75°S, 60.60°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°WBermont — 28.80°N, 82.20°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WBermont — 26.90°N, 82.00°WBermont — 27.00°N, 82.20°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.12°S, 60.43°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.07°S, 60.55°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.28°S, 60.37°WSalto Ander Egg — 31.03°S, 60.50°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WBlanco — 33.77°N, 101.28°WBlanco — 33.82°N, 101.20°WSopas — 30.43°S, 56.45°WSopas — 31.25°S, 57.00°WSopas — 32.05°S, 56.12°WOgallala — 39.80°N, 99.40°WOgallala — 36.70°N, 101.40°WOgallala — 38.90°N, 101.70°WOgallala — 35.80°N, 99.63°WOgallala — 35.62°N, 99.84°WFleming — 31.10°N, 93.10°WFleming — 30.59°N, 94.91°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WFleming — 30.30°N, 95.70°WFleming — 30.61°N, 95.15°WCaliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WTruckee — 39.50°N, 118.50°WTruckee — 39.25°N, 118.85°WTesuque — 36.50°N, 107.00°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WGila Conglomerate — 32.84°N, 110.00°WGila Conglomerate — 32.58°N, 109.48°WGila Conglomerate — 32.90°N, 109.10°WGila Conglomerate — 32.70°N, 109.10°WGila Conglomerate — 32.70°N, 109.00°WCamp Rice — 32.00°N, 106.70°WCamp Rice — 31.50°N, 105.20°WCamp Rice — 32.65°N, 107.23°WSt. David — 32.00°N, 110.20°WLove — 31.50°N, 105.20°WPeace River — 27.50°N, 82.50°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WPeace River — 27.68°N, 81.95°WGreen Valley — 37.81°N, 121.91°WPeace Valley Beds — 34.71°N, 118.81°W

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The named rock units Lamini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 96 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 341 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lamini and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lamini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,439 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 563 sites for Lamini, 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

301 references

Each of the 708 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. 289 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 Lamini

Credit
Frettie
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lamini was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

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What may have been alongside itCamelinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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