Procamelus

Procamelus is an extinct genus of camel endemic to North America. It lived from the Middle to Late Miocene 16.3—5.3 mya, existing for approximately 11 million years. The name is derived from the Greek πρό, meaning "before" or denoting priority of order, and κάμελος ("camel"), thus meaning "fore-camel", "early camel" or "predecessor camel".

Procamelus

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
browserPBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Camelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 1.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 210 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 97 occurrencesMiocene — about 94 of 97 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 97 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 97 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 13 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 13 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 12 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 12 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16.3 Mya1.4 Mya23.5 Mya0 Mya

97 occurrences of Procamelus 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

97 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

19 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 — 42.60°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 105.10°WAsh Hollow — 41.70°N, 103.10°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 99.70°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.53°N, 97.74°WGoliad — 28.34°N, 97.96°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WGracias — 14.60°N, 88.50°WJuntura — 43.60°N, 117.50°WOlcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WEl Camarón — 16.55°N, 96.03°WGreen Valley — 37.81°N, 121.91°WZia — 35.70°N, 107.00°WPopotosa — 34.80°N, 106.90°WCrowder — 34.80°N, 117.00°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WOgallala — 35.80°N, 99.63°WFleming — 30.30°N, 95.70°WCaliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WCalvert — 37.93°N, 77.51°WChalk Hills — 42.77°N, 115.92°W

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The named rock units Procamelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Procamelus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Procamelus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

724 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 95 sites for Procamelus, 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

42 references

Each of the 97 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. 30 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 Procamelus

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

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
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Specimen
Procamelus grandis · amnh:fm:40425

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

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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. Leidy 1858