Paracamelus alutensis

Paracamelus alutensis is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Paracamelus. It was named by Stefanescu in 1895, 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 Zanclean to the Calabrian stage of the early Pliocene, between about 5.333 and 0.774 million years ago, from 2 fossil occurrences, found in Romania and Russia (Rostovskaya Oblast'). 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 Paracamelus names the species, which is the second source for the name.