Palaeolama major

Palaeolama major is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae now placed in the genus Palaeolama. It was first described under another genus name by Liais in 1872, 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 Gelasian to the Holocene stage of the early Pleistocene, between about 2.58 and 0 million years ago, from 15 fossil occurrences, found in Brazil. 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 Palaeolama major as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.