Miolabis fissidens

Miolabis fissidens is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Miolabis. It was first described by Cope in 1876 and has since been placed in the genus Miolabis. The database dates the species from the Burdigalian to the Serravallian stage, between about 18.5 and 12.5 million years ago, from 7 fossil occurrences, collected in the United States (Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, Montana, Oregon). Its ecospace record gives a terrestrial, ground-dwelling way of life and a browsing diet, values the database takes from the wider Camelidae clade, since fossils of the species itself do not show how it fed. The GBIF backbone taxonomy lists Miolabis fissidens as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.