Pleiolama vera

Pleiolama vera is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Pleiolama. It was first described by Matthew in 1909 and has since been placed in the genus Pleiolama. The database dates the species from the Aquitanian to the Piacenzian stage, between about 23.04 and 2.58 million years ago, from 40 fossil occurrences, collected in the United States (Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, Alabama, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, California, Arizona) and Mexico and Costa Rica. 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 GBIF backbone taxonomy lists Pleiolama vera as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.