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Stenomylus hitchcocki Loomis, 1910 - fossil camel skeletons from the Miocene of Nebraska, USA. (public display, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)

From museum signage: "Although considered ships of the desert today, camels originated in the forested areas of North America. Stenomylus was a small gazelle-like camel perfectly adapted for living in and eating the grasses that appeared during the Miocene. They browsed in herds, rapidly sprinting away at the hint of danger."

Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Tylopoda, Camelidae

Stratigraphy: lower Harrison Formation, Harrisonian Stage, Lower Miocene

Locality: Stenomylus quarry, Agate Fossil Beds, Sioux County, northwestern Nebraska, USA

See info. at: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenomylus" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenomylus</a> and

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelid" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelid</a>
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Author James St. John

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