Gentilicamelus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NothokemadinaePBDB
- Diet
- browser, browserPBDB, for Camelidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Camelidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Gentilicamelus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
7 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Gentilicamelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gentilicamelus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Gentilicamelus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
90 taxa- Promerycochoerus superbus6 sites
- Hypertragulus calcaratus5 sites
- Leidymys5 sites
- Miohippus5 sites
- Florentiamys4 sites
- Hypsiops4 sites
- Merycoides4 sites
- Oreodontoides oregonensis4 sites
- Paroreodon parvus4 sites
- Capacikala gradatus3 sites
- Daphoenus3 sites
- Diceratherium3 sites
- Palaeolagus3 sites
- Paradaphoenus cuspigerus3 sites
- Agriochoerus2 sites
- Allomys2 sites
- Archaeotherium2 sites
- Cormocyon copei2 sites
- Daeodon2 sites
- Desmatolagus2 sites
- Dyticonastis rensbergeri2 sites
- Entoptychus2 sites
- Entoptychus wheelerensis2 sites
- Eporeodon occidentalis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Gentilicamelus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Skull and skeletal remains of the camel Paratylopus cameloides (Wortman) from the John Day deposits, Oregon5
- New oreodont (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the late Oligocene (early Arikareean) of Florida1
- Observations on the faunae of the Miocene Tertiaries of Oregon1
Each of the 7 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Gentilicamelus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Gentilicamelus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNothokemadinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loomis 1936