Camelus knoblochi

Camelus knoblochi is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Camelus. It was named by Nehring in 1901, 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 Gelasian to the Late Pleistocene stage of the early Pleistocene, between about 2.58 and 0.0117 million years ago, from 4 fossil occurrences, found in Kazakhstan and Mongolia (Bayankhongor) 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 Camelus knoblochi describes the species, which is the second source for the name.