Megatylopus cochrani

Megatylopus cochrani is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Megatylopus. It was first described by Hibbard and Riggs in 1949 and has since been placed in the genus Megatylopus. The database dates the species from the Zanclean to the Calabrian stage, between about 4.7 and 1.4 million years ago, from 5 fossil occurrences, collected in the United States (Kansas, Nebraska, Washington). Its ecospace record gives a terrestrial, ground-dwelling way of life and a browsing diet, values the database takes from the wider Megatylopus clade, since fossils of the species itself do not show how it fed. The GBIF backbone taxonomy lists Megatylopus cochrani as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.