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Aepycamelus ✝

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Description

Aepycamelus, the long-necked camel, is an extinct genus of camelids that lived during the Miocene 20.6–4.9 million years ago, existing for about 15.7 million years. Its name is derived from the Homeric Greek αἰπύς, "high and steep" and κάμηλος – "camel"; thus, "high camel"; alticamelus in Latin.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4835741	https://www.gbif.org/species/4835741
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	42514	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42514

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Camelidae : Aepycamelus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Camelidae : Aepycamelus

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	Lamini	Webb 1965
genus	Aepycamelus	Macdonald 1956

Scientific Name

Aepycamelus Macdonald, 1956

Name Published In

J. Paleont. 30

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Aepycamelus	genus	belongs to Camelidae	stated without evidence	Macdonald, 1956
Aepycamelus	genus	belongs to Aepycamelinae	stated without evidence	Webb, 1965
Aepycamelus	genus	belongs to Camelidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Aepycamelus	genus	belongs to Lamini	stated with evidence	Honey et al., 1998

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

10.3 - 1.8 Ma
Cenozoic

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)

J. R. Macdonald. 1956. A new Clarendonian mammalian fauna from the Truckee Formation of western Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 30(1):186-202

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Aepycamelus bradyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	13.6 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene
Alticamelus alexandrae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	23.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Alticamelus giraffinus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Alticamelus priscus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Alticamelus procerus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Alticamelus stocki ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	23.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Auchenia major ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	13.6 Ma Miocene	10.3 Ma Miocene
Procamelus altus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Procamelus elrodi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Procamelus robustus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	12	16.0 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Alticamelus Matthew, 1901	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Camelidae : *Alticamelus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1901	Alticamelus Matthew
1945	Alticamelus Simpson p. 150
1956	Aepycamelus Macdonald
1965	Aepycamelus Webb p. 44
1988	Aepycamelus Carroll
1998	Aepycamelus Honey et al. p. 451
2019	Aepycamelus May

References

Macdonald J. R. (1956) A new Clarendonian mammalian fauna from the Truckee Formation of western Nevada, Journal of Paleontology 30 1, 186-202

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

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

May S. R. (2019) The Lapara Creek Fauna: Early Clarendonian of south Texas, USA, Palaeontologia Electronica 22.1.15, 1-129 doi:10.26879/929

J. Paleont. 30 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

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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