Megatylopus
| Megatylopus | |
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| Front limb bone of Megatylopus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Camelidae |
| Subfamily: | Camelinae |
| Tribe: | Camelini |
| Genus: | †Megatylopus Matthew & Cook, 1909 |
| Type species | |
| Pliauchenia gigas | |
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Megatylopus (also known as the North American camel) is an extinct genus of large camel, endemic to North America from the Late Miocene to the Pliocene, existing for approximately 7.4 million years.[1] Fossil distribution ranged from North Carolina to California. It stood about 4.2 metres (14 ft) tall.[2]
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- Miocene even-toed ungulates
- Pliocene even-toed ungulates
- Prehistoric even-toed ungulate genera
- Miocene genus first appearances
- Pliocene genus extinctions
- Neogene mammals of North America
- Blancan
- Hemphillian
- Fossil taxa described in 1909
- Ringold Formation Miocene Fauna
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