Floridatragulus hesperus

Floridatragulus hesperus is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Floridatragulus. The Paleobiology Database credits the name to Patton in 1969, while the GBIF backbone taxonomy gives Patton and the year 1976, and the database dates the species from the Burdigalian to the Serravallian stage, between about 16.3 and 12.5 million years ago, in the early and middle Miocene, from two fossil occurrences, both in Texas in the United States. The Paleobiology Database lists it as an extinct member of the even-toed ungulates with a terrestrial, ground-dwelling way of life and a browsing diet, values it takes from the wider group, and it files the name as a synonym of Floridatragulus texanus, whereas the GBIF backbone treats it as an accepted species, so the two sources disagree about whether it stands apart from that species.