Camelinae
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Subfamily of mammals
| Camelinae | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Camelidae |
| Subfamily: | Camelinae Zittel, 1893 |
| Tribes | |
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Camelinae is a subfamily of artiodactyls of the family Camelidae. Camelinae include the tribes Camelini and Lamini. A third tribe, Camelopini, created by S. D. Webb (1965), was formerly included, but was discarded by J. A. Harrison (1979) after it was shown to be polyphyletic: it consisted of the genera Camelops and Megatylopus , which were moved to Camelini and Lamini respectively.[1]
Taxonomy
[edit ]Camelinae was named by Gray (1821). Its type is Camelus . It was assigned to Camelidae by Stanley et al. (1994) and Ruez (2005).[2]
References
[edit ]- ^ Harrison, J. A (1979). "Revision of the Camelinae (Artiodactyla, Tylopoda) and description of the new genus Alforjas". University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions. 95 (4): 1–28. hdl:1808/3664.
- ^ Ruez, D. R. (September 2005). "Earliest record of Palaeolama (Mammalia, Camelidae) with comments on "Palaeolama" guanajuatensis". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 25 (3): 741–744. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0741:EROPMC]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4524496.