Eulamaops
Appearance
Eulamaops | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Camelidae |
Tribe: | Camelini |
Genus: | †Eulamaops Ameghino 1889 |
Species | |
E. paralellus |
Eulamaops is an extinct genus of terrestrial herbivores in the family Camelidae, endemic to South America during the Pleistocene (Lujanian, 781,000—12,000 years ago), existing about 0.769 million years.[1] Fossil remains of Eulamaops have been found in the Luján Formation in Argentina.[1]
Taxonomy
Eulamaops was named by Ameghino (1889). It was assigned to the Camelidae by Carroll (1988).
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