Paracamelus gigas

Paracamelus gigas is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae now placed in the genus Paracamelus. It was first described under another genus name by Matthew and Cook in 1909, 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 Aquitanian to the Zanclean stage of the early Miocene, between about 23.04 and 4.7 million years ago, from 13 fossil occurrences, found in China (Hebei, Tianjin) and Russia (Rostovskaya Oblast') and Tajikistan. 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 Wikipedia article on the genus Paracamelus names the species, which is the second source for the name.