Camelini

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Camelini
Temporal range: Pliocene–Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Camelidae
Subfamily: Camelinae
Tribe: Camelini
Nordmann (1850)
Genera

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[edit]

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

References[edit]

  1. ^ PaleoBiology Database: Camelini, basic info
  2. ^ 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