Procamelus grandis

Procamelus grandis is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Procamelus. It was named by Gregory in 1939, 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 Aquitanian to the Zanclean stage of the early Miocene, between about 23.04 and 4.7 million years ago, from 43 fossil occurrences, found in Honduras and El Salvador 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 GBIF backbone taxonomy lists Procamelus grandis as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.