Camelini
| Camelini Temporal range: Pliocene–Recent | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Camelidae |
| Subfamily: | Camelinae |
| Tribe: | Camelini Nordmann (1850) |
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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
Camelini was named by Gray (1821). It was assigned to Camelinae by Stanley et al. (1994).[2]
References
- ↑ PaleoBiology Database: Camelini, basic info
- ↑ 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