Hemiauchenia gracilis

Hemiauchenia gracilis is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Hemiauchenia. It was named by Meachen in 2005, 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 Late Pleistocene stage of the late Miocene, between about 9.4 and 0.0117 million years ago, from 15 fossil occurrences, found in Mexico (Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Nayarit) and the United States (Florida). 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 Hemiauchenia gracilis as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.