Michenia exilis

Michenia exilis is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Michenia. It was first described by Matthew and Macdonald in 1960 and has since been placed in the genus Michenia. The database dates the species from the Rupelian to the Burdigalian stage, between about 29.5 and 18.5 million years ago, from 5 fossil occurrences, collected in the United States (South Dakota, Texas). 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 Wikipedia article on Michenia, read for the genus, describes it as an extinct genus of camelid endemic to North America. The GBIF backbone taxonomy lists Michenia exilis as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.