Alforjas taylori

Alforjas taylori is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Alforjas. It was named by Harrison in 1979, 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 Tortonian to the Zanclean stage of the late Miocene, between about 9.4 and 4.7 million years ago, from 6 fossil occurrences, found in Mexico (Zacatecas) and the United States (Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas). 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 GBIF backbone taxonomy lists Alforjas taylori as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.