Palaeolama mirifica

Palaeolama mirifica is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae now placed in the genus Palaeolama. It was first described under another genus name by Simpson in 1929, 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 30 fossil occurrences, found in Mexico (Sonora) and the United States. 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 the genus Palaeolama names the species, which is the second source for the name.