Camelinae Explained

Camelinae is a subfamily of artiodactyls of the family Camelidae. Camelinae include the tribes Camelini and Lamini. A third tribe, Camelopini, created by S. D. Webb (1965), was formerly included, but was discarded by J. A. Harrison (1979) after it was shown to be polyphyletic: it consisted of the genera Camelops and Megatylopus, which were moved to Camelini and Lamini respectively.^[1]

Taxonomy

Camelinae was named by Gray (1821). Its type is Camelus. It was assigned to Camelidae by Stanley et al. (1994) and Ruez (2005).^[2]

Notes and References

1. Harrison. J. A. 1979. Revision of the Camelinae (Artiodactyla, Tylopoda) and description of the new genus Alforjas. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions. 95. 4. 1–28. 1808/3664.
2. D. R.. Ruez. September 2005. Earliest record of Palaeolama (Mammalia, Camelidae) with comments on "Palaeolama" guanajuatensis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25. 3 . 741–744 . 4524496 . 10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0741:EROPMC]2.0.CO;2 .