Tylopoda

Tylopoda Temporal range: Middle Eocene to Recent
A Dromedary camel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Suborder:	Tylopoda Illiger, 1811
Families
Camelidae  Oromerycidae†  Agriochoeridae†  Merycoidodontidae†  Xiphodontidae†  Cainotheriidae†

Tylopoda (meaning "swollen foot") is a suborder of terrestrial herbivorous even-toed ungulates belonging to Artiodactyla. They are extant in the wild in their native ranges of South America and Asia, while Australian feral camels are an introduced species. The group has a long fossil history in North America and Europe. Tylopoda appeared during the Eocene around 46.2 million years ago.

Tylopoda has only one extant family, Camelidae, which includes camels, llamas, guanacos, alpacas and vicuñas. This group was much more diverse in the past, containing the now extinct families Xiphodontidae, Oromerycidae and Cainotheriidae, as well as the two families of oreodonts, Agriochoeridae and Merycoidodontidae.

Taxonomy

Life restoration of Agriochoerus antiquus

Tylopoda was named by Illiger (1811). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Matthew (1908). It was reranked as the unranked clade Tylopoda by Matthew (1908); it was reranked as the suborder Tylopoda by Carroll (1988), Ursing et al. (2000) and Whistler and Webb (2005). It was assigned to Ruminantia by Matthew (1908); to Artiodactyla by Flower (1883) and Carroll (1988); to Neoselenodontia by Whistler and Webb (2005); and to Cetartiodactyla by Ursing et al. (2000) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008).

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