Blancocamelus meadei

Blancocamelus meadei is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Blancocamelus. It was named by Dalquest in 1975, 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 Zanclean to the Chibanian stage of the early Pliocene, between about 4.7 and 0.21 million years ago, from 6 fossil occurrences, found in Mexico (Guanajuato) and the United States (New Mexico, 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 Blancocamelus meadei as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.