Aguascalientia
| Aguascalientia Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Camelidae |
| Subfamily: | †Floridatragulinae |
| Genus: | † Stevens 1977 |
| Type species | |
| †Aguascalientia wilsoni | |
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Aguascalientia is an extinct genus of miniature camelids, endemic to North America (as far south as the Panama Canal) during the Early Miocene 23.0—20.4 mya existing for approximately 3 million years.[1][2]
References
- ^ a b c Rincon, A.F.; Bloch, J.I.; Suarez, C.; MacFadden, B.J.; Jaramillo, C.A. (2012). "New floridatragulines (Mammalia, Camelidae) from the early Miocene Las Cascadas Formation, Panama". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (2): 456–475. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32..456R. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.635736. S2CID 85984250.
- ^ Aguascalientia at fossilworks