UW43172 - Camelidae, long bone

Description

* Period/Epoch: Quaternary / Pleistocene * Rock Formation: Unknown * State, County: Wyoming, Albany Taxonomy: Mammalia>Artiodactyla>Camelidae Camelidae is a family of even-toed ungulates that includes camels, llamas, alpacas, vicunas, and guanacos. They lack hooves and instead have cutaneous pads with two toes, and have true canines that resemble tusks. In the fossil record, the camelids appear in the middle Eocene of North America and migrated through to South America and Eurasia, where their current natural localities are. This specimen is a scan of a long bone, likely from one of the legs. Scanned with the David SLS-2