Miotylopus
Miotylopus Temporal range:
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Camelidae |
Tribe: | Camelini |
Genus: | †Miotylopus Schlaikjer 1935 |
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Miotylopus is an extinct genus of camelid endemic to North America. It lived during the Early Miocene 24.8—20.4 mya, existing for approximately 5 million years.[1] Fossils have been found in Wyoming and from Nebraska to Southern California.
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Categories:
- Prehistoric camelids
- Prehistoric even-toed ungulate genera
- Oligocene even-toed ungulates
- Miocene even-toed ungulates
- Burdigalian genus extinctions
- Cenozoic mammals of North America
- Oligocene genus first appearances
- Taxa named by Erich Maren Schlaikjer
- Fossil taxa described in 1935
- Prehistoric even-toed ungulate stubs