Gigantocamelus

Titanotylopus is an extinct genus of camel, endemic to North America from the late Hemphillian stage of the Miocene through the Irvingtonian stage of the Pleistocene. It was one of the last surviving North American camels; after its extinction, only Camelops remained.

Gigantocamelus

Dawn Pedersen · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/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
CameliniPBDB
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 4.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 210 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 20 of 36 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 16 of 36 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 36 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.0–867 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences867 ka–693 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences693 ka–520 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences520 ka–347 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences347 ka–173 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.2 Mya0 Mya

36 occurrences of Gigantocamelus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

36 occurrences

These 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

7 formations

Blanco — 33.81°N, 101.21°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WBlanco — 33.77°N, 101.28°WGlenns Ferry — 43.60°N, 116.80°WRexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WBon Homme Gravel — 43.00°N, 97.40°WCamp Rice — 31.50°N, 105.20°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WPalomas — 33.10°N, 107.30°W

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The named rock units Gigantocamelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gigantocamelus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Gigantocamelus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

244 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Gigantocamelus, 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

22 references

Each of the 36 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. 10 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Gigantocamelus

Credit
Dawn Pedersen
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gigantocamelus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCamelini through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barbour and Schultz 1939