Camelini

Camelini Temporal range: Pliocene–Recent PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Camelidae
Subfamily:	Camelinae
Tribe:	Camelini Nordmann (1850)
Genera
Camelus Aepycamelus (syn. Alticamelus, Homocamelus) Aguascalientia Alforjas Australocamelus Blancocamelus Camelops Cuyamacamelus Eulamaops Floridatragulus (syn. Hypermekops) Gentilicamelus Gigantocamelus Hesperocamelus Megacamelus Megatylopus Michenia Miotylopus (syn. Dyseotylopus) Nothokemas Palauchenia Paracamelus Paralabis Paratylopus Pliauchenia Poebrodon Poebrotherium Priscocamelus Procamelus Protolabis Pseudolabis Tanymykter Titanotylopus

Camelini is a tribe of terrestrial herbivore the family Camelidae, endemic to Asia, North America, and Africa from the Pliocene to the present.^[1] It includes the living genus Camelus as the type genus.

Taxonomy

Camelini was named by Gray (1821). It was assigned to Camelinae by Stanley et al. (1994).^[2]

References

↑ PaleoBiology Database: Camelini, basic info
↑ H. F. Stanley, M. Kadwell, and J. C. Wheeler. 1994. Molecular evolution of the family Camelidae: a mitochondrial DNA study. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 256:1-6

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