Camelus thomasi

Camelus thomasi is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Camelus. It was named by Pomel in 1893, 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 Late Pleistocene stage of the early Pliocene, between about 5.333 and 0.0117 million years ago, from 5 fossil occurrences, found in Algeria and Egypt and Syria and Tunisia (Bizerte ). 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 Camelus thomasi as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.