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Camelops

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Kingdom
  
Order
  
Artiodactyla

Tribe
  
Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Camelidae

Higher classification
  
Camelops Extinct Western Camel Fact Sheet 2009

Similar
  
Hemiauchenia, Titanotylopus, American mastodon, Aepycamelus, Columbian mammoth

Camelops is an extinct genus of camel that once roamed western North America, where it disappeared at the end of the Pleistocene about 10,000 years ago. It was very closely related to the Old World Dromedary and Bactrian camel in anatomical form. Its name is derived from the Greek κάμελος (camel) + ὀψ (face), thus "camel-face."

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