Palaeolama

Palaeolama is an extinct genus of lamine camelids that existed from the Pleistocene to the Holocene. Their range extended from North America to the intertropical region of South America.

Palaeolama

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 88 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 88 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 83 of 88 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 88 occurrences5.1–5.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.0–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.4–4.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.3–1.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.1–917 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences917 ka–733 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences733 ka–550 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences550 ka–367 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences367 ka–183 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences183 ka–0 Mya — about 46 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka5.5 Mya0 Mya

88 occurrences of Palaeolama on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

88 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

15 formations

Tarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WTarija — 21.50°S, 64.75°WNuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°WNuapua — 20.87°S, 63.07°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WLa Habra — 33.60°N, 117.80°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WMiramar — 38.27°S, 57.85°WSilver Bluff — 32.56°N, 80.29°WSopas — 30.43°S, 56.45°WVorohué — 38.03°S, 57.72°WSan José — 34.80°S, 55.30°WShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WLagunilla del Plata — 31.05°S, 62.56°WDeweyville — 30.03°N, 95.85°WTucuman — 26.73°S, 65.27°WBeaumont — 29.66°N, 94.09°W

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The named rock units Palaeolama has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 68 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeolama and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Palaeolama and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,105 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Palaeolama, 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

67 references

Each of the 88 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. 55 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 Palaeolama

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Palaeolama 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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What may have been alongside itLamini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gervais 1869