Pliauchenia raki

Pliauchenia raki is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae now placed in the genus Pliauchenia. It was first described under another genus name by Frick in 1921, 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 Tortonian to the Zanclean stage of the late Miocene, between about 9.4 and 4.7 million years ago, from one fossil occurrence, found in the United States (California). 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 Pliauchenia raki as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.