Nothokemas
Nothokemas Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Camelidae |
Tribe: | Camelini |
Genus: | †Nothokemas White 1947 |
Type species | |
Oxydactylus floridanus | |
Species | |
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Nothokemas is an extinct genus of camelid endemic to North America. It lived from the Late Oligocene to the Early Miocene 24.8— 16.0 mya, existing for approximately 9 million years.[1] Fossils have been found along the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida.
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Categories:
- Prehistoric camelids
- Oligocene even-toed ungulates
- Miocene even-toed ungulates
- Burdigalian extinctions
- Prehistoric mammals of North America
- Oligocene
- Chattian genus first appearances
- Prehistoric even-toed ungulate genera
- Fossil taxa described in 1940
- Prehistoric even-toed ungulate stubs