Hemiauchenia

Hemiauchenia
Temporal range: Mid Miocene – Late Pleistocene
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Reconstructed H. macrocephala skeleton, Florida Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Camelidae
Tribe: Lamini
Genus: †Hemiauchenia
Gervais & Ameghino, 1880
Species
  • H. macrocephala (Cope, 1893)
  • H. minima (Leidy, 1886)
  • H. blancoensis (Meade,1945)
  • H. vera (Matthew, 1909)
  • H. paradoxa (Gervais & Ameghino, 1880)
  • H. seymourensis
  • H. edensis
  • H. guanajuatensis
  • H. mirim Greco et al., 2022
Synonyms

Tanupolama Stock 1928 Holomeniscus Cope 1884

Hemiauchenia is a genus of lamine camelids that evolved in North America in the Miocene period about 10 million years ago. This genus diversified and entered South America in the Late Pliocene about three to two million years ago, as part of the Great American Biotic Interchange. The genus became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene. The monophyly of the genus has been considered questionable, with phylogenetic analyses finding the genus to paraphyletic or polyphyletic, with some species suggested to be more closely related to living lamines (llamas and relatives) than to other Hemiauchenia species.

This genus gave rise to the genus Lama, of which modern lamines belong to.

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