Nothokemas floridanus

Nothokemas floridanus is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Nothokemas. It was first described by Simpson in 1932 and has since been placed in the genus Nothokemas. The database dates the species from the Aquitanian to the Messinian stage, between about 23.04 and 5.333 million years ago, from 4 fossil occurrences, collected in the United States (Florida, Texas). 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 Wikipedia article on Nothokemas, read for the genus, describes it as an extinct genus of camelid endemic to North America. The GBIF backbone taxonomy lists Nothokemas floridanus as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.