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Titanotylopus ✝

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Titanotylopus is an extinct genus of terrestrial herbivore in the family Camelidae, endemic to North America from the Miocene through Pleistocene 10.3 mya—30,000 years ago, existing for approximately 10.3 million years.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanotylopus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4835730	https://www.gbif.org/species/4835730
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	42555	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42555

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Camelidae : Titanotylopus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Camelidae : Titanotylopus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Ungulata
order	Artiodactyla	Owen 1848
suborder	Tylopoda
superfamily	Cameloidea
family	Camelidae	Gray 1821
subfamily	Camelinae	Gray 1821
tribe	Camelini	Gray 1821
genus	Titanotylopus	Barbour & Schultz 1934

Scientific Name

Titanotylopus Barbour & Schultz, 1934

Name Published In

Nebraska State Mus. Bull., 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Titanotylopus	genus	belongs to Camelidae	stated without evidence	Barbour and Schultz, 1934
Titanotylopus	genus	belongs to Camelinae	stated without evidence	Simpson, 1945
Titanotylopus	genus	belongs to Camelini	stated without evidence	Webb, 1965
Titanotylopus	genus	belongs to Camelini	stated with evidence	Breyer, 1976
Titanotylopus	genus	belongs to Camelidae	stated without evidence	Kurten and Anderson, 1980
Titanotylopus	genus	belongs to Camelidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Titanotylopus	genus	belongs to Camelini	stated with evidence	Honey et al., 1998

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

10.3 - 4.9 Ma
Neogene

Last Recorded Appearance

1.80 - 0.30 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Artiodactyla)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

browser, browser (based on Camelidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. H. Barbour and C. B. Schultz. 1934. A new giant camel, Titanotylopus nebraskensis, gen et sp. nov. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 1(36):291-294

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanotylopus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Titanotylopus nebraskensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	10.3 Ma Miocene	4.90 Ma Pliocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1934	Titanotylopus Barbour and Schultz
1945	Titanotylopus Simpson p. 150
1965	Titanotylopus Webb p. 44
1976	Titanotylopus Breyer
1980	Titanotylopus Kurten and Anderson p. 301
1988	Titanotylopus Carroll
1998	Titanotylopus Honey et al. p. 451

References

Barbour E. H., Schultz C. B. (1934) A new giant camel, Titanotylopus nebraskensis, gen et sp. nov, Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 1 36, 291-294

Simpson G. G. (1945) The principles of classification and a classification of mammals, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 85, 1-350

Webb S. D. (1965) The osteology of Camelops, Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science 1, 1-53

Kurten B., Anderson E. (1980) , Pleistocene mammals of North America, 1-442

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Honey J. G., Harrison J. A., et al (1998) Camelidae, Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America 1, 439-462

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nebraska State Mus. Bull., 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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