Camelini
Tribe of mammals
title: "Camelini" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["camelids", "pliocene-artiodactyla", "pleistocene-artiodactyla", "mammal-tribes", "extant-eocene-first-appearances"] description: "Tribe of mammals" topic_path: "general/camelids" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelini" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Tribe of mammals ::
| fossil_range = | image = Abhay Resort Karnu.jpg | image_caption = Camelus dromedarius | taxon = Camelini | authority = Gray, 1821 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = *Camelus
- Camelops
- Gentilicamelus
- Gigantocamelus
- Hesperocamelus
- Megacamelus
- Megatylopus
- Michenia
- Paracamelus
- Paratylopus
- Procamelus
- Tanymykter
- Titanotylopus
Camelini is a tribe of camelids including all camelids more closely related to modern camels (Camelus) than to Lamini (which contains llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos), from which camelines split approximately 17 million years ago. The tribe originated in North America, with the genus Paracamelus migrating over the Bering Land Bridge into Eurasia during the Late Miocene, around 6 million years ago, becoming ancestral to Camelus. The last member of Camelini in North America was Camelops, which became extinct as part of the Quaternary extinction event at the end of the Late Pleistocene, around 12,000 years ago.
References
References
- (1997). "Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level". Columbia University Press.
- (December 2020). "Description of a fossil camelid from the Pleistocene of Argentina, and a cladistic analysis of the Camelinae". [[Swiss Journal of Palaeontology]].
- (March 2019). "Collagen sequence analysis of fossil camels, Camelops and c.f. Paracamelus, from the Arctic and sub-Arctic of Plio-Pleistocene North America". Journal of Proteomics.
- (September 2015). "Genomic Data from Extinct North American Camelops Revise Camel Evolutionary History". Molecular Biology and Evolution.
- (June 2013). "Mid-Pliocene warm-period deposits in the High Arctic yield insight into camel evolution". Nature Communications.
- "Evolutionary Biology". Rastogi Publications.
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::