Poebrotherium wilsoni

Poebrotherium wilsoni is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Poebrotherium. It was named by Leidy in 1847, 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 Priabonian to the Rupelian stage of the late Eocene, between about 37 and 29.5 million years ago, from 26 fossil occurrences, found in the United States. 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 Poebrotherium wilsoni as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.