Stevenscamelus franki

Stevenscamelus franki is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae now placed in the genus Stevenscamelus. It was first described under another genus name by Wilson in 1974, and the Paleobiology Database records it as an extinct species of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. The database dates the species to the Priabonian stage of the late Eocene, between about 37 and 33.9 million years ago, from 2 fossil occurrences, found in the United States (Texas). 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 Stevenscamelus names the species, which is the second source for the name.