Poebrodon californicus

Poebrodon californicus is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Poebrodon. It was named by Golz in 1976, 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 Lutetian to the Bartonian stage of the middle Eocene, between about 45.9 and 39.7 million years ago, from one fossil occurrence, found in the United States (California). 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 Poebrodon californicus as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.