Hemiauchenia blancoensis

Hemiauchenia blancoensis is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Hemiauchenia. It was first described by Meade in 1945 and has since been placed in the genus Hemiauchenia. The database dates the species from the Zanclean to the Calabrian stage, between about 4.7 and 1.4 million years ago, from 6 fossil occurrences, collected in the United States (Kansas, Texas, Florida) and Mexico. Its ecospace record gives a terrestrial, ground-dwelling way of life and a browsing and grazing diet, values the database takes from the wider Hemiauchenia clade, since fossils of the species itself do not show how it fed. The GBIF backbone taxonomy lists Hemiauchenia blancoensis as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.