Gigantocamelus spatulus

Gigantocamelus spatulus is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae now placed in the genus Gigantocamelus. It was first described under another genus name by Cope 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 Chibanian stage of the early Pliocene, between about 4.7 and 0.21 million years ago, from 25 fossil occurrences, found in the United States. 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 Gigantocamelus names the species, which is the second source for the name.