Lama castelnaudi

Lama castelnaudi is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Lama. It was named by Gervais in 1855, 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 Piacenzian to the Calabrian stage of the late Pliocene, between about 3.6 and 0.774 million years ago, from 2 fossil occurrences, found in Argentina (Buenos Aires) and Bolivia. 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 Lama castelnaudi as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.