Aepycamelus giraffinus

Aepycamelus giraffinus is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae now placed in the genus Aepycamelus. It was first described under another genus name by Matthew in 1909, and the Paleobiology Database records it as an extinct species of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. The database dates the species from the Burdigalian to the Tortonian stage of the early Miocene, between about 16.3 and 9.4 million years ago, from one fossil occurrence, found in the United States (Colorado). Its ecospace record gives a terrestrial, ground-dwelling way of life and a browsing or grazing diet, values taken from the wider family, since fossils of the species itself do not show how it fed. The Wikipedia article on the genus Aepycamelus names the species, which is the second source for the name.