Protolabis
Appearance
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Protolabis | |
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Protolabis gracilis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Camelidae |
Tribe: | Camelini |
Genus: | †Protolabis Cope 1876 |
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Protolabis is an extinct genus of camelid endemic to North America. It lived from the Early to Late Miocene 20.4—5.3 mya, existing for approximately 15 million years.[1] Fossil distribution is widespread from Nicaragua, Central America to Montana and throughout the western U.S.
References
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Categories:
- Prehistoric camelids
- Miocene Artiodactyla
- Prehistoric Artiodactyla genera
- Aquitanian genus first appearances
- Tortonian extinctions
- Miocene mammals of North America
- Arikareean
- Hemingfordian
- Barstovian
- Clarendonian
- Hemphillian
- Fossil taxa described in 1876
- Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
- Prehistoric Artiodactyla stubs