Lama gracilis

Lama gracilis is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Lama. It was named by Gervais and Ameghino in 1980, 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 Chibanian to the Late Pleistocene stage of the middle Pleistocene, between about 0.4 and 0.0117 million years ago, from 4 fossil occurrences, found in Argentina (Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos, Santa Cruz) and Chile (Calama). 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 gracilis as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.