Eulamaops facts for kids
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Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Camelidae |
| Tribe: | Camelini |
| Genus: | †Eulamaops Ameghino 1889 |
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E. paralellus |
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Eulamaops is an extinct genus of camelid, endemic to South America during the Pleistocene (Lujanian, 781,000—12,000 years ago), existing about 0.769 million years. Fossil remains of Eulamaops have been found in the Luján Formation in Argentina in areas that would have been open grass and shrub land. It is estimated to have weighed 150 kilograms
Taxonomy
Eulamaops was named by Ameghino (1889). It was assigned to the Camelidae by Carroll (1988).
See also
In Spanish: Eulamaops parallelus para niños
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