Procamelus occidentalis

Procamelus occidentalis is an extinct species of camelid, a member of the family Camelidae in the genus Procamelus. It was named by Leidy in 1858, 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 Burdigalian to the Tortonian stage of the early Miocene, between about 16.3 and 9.4 million years ago, from 18 fossil occurrences, found in the United States (Nebraska, Oregon, Texas). 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 occidentalis as an accepted species of the family Camelidae, which is the second source for the name.