Megatylopus primaevus

Megatylopus primaevus is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Megatylopus. It was named by Patton in 1969, 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 Serravallian to the Zanclean stage of the middle Miocene, between about 12.5 and 4.7 million years ago, from 5 fossil occurrences, found in the United States (Nebraska, 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 GBIF backbone taxonomy lists Megatylopus primaevus as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.