Tanymykter brachyodontus

Tanymykter brachyodontus is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Tanymykter. It was first described by Peterson in 1904 and has since been placed in the genus Tanymykter. The database dates the species from the Chattian to the Messinian stage, between about 23.1 and 5.333 million years ago, from 5 fossil occurrences, collected in the United States (Wyoming, Nebraska, California). Its ecospace record gives a terrestrial, ground-dwelling way of life and a browsing diet, values the database takes from the wider Camelidae clade, since fossils of the species itself do not show how it fed. The GBIF backbone taxonomy lists Tanymykter brachyodontus as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.