Unsealing Megatylopus | Ray P. Authement College of Sciences
On February 1, 2018 the Lafayette Science Museum and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's School of Geosciences, Geology Museum unsealed a cast containing five million-year-old giant camel fossils. The fossilized skeleton of Megatylopus is an extremely rare paleontological find.
America’s 7-million-year old giant camel | Earth Archives
Researchers at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette excavated a giant camel found in Oregon back in 2015. The specimen is the most complete fossil of Megatylopus, an extinct large camel that lived from the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene (13.6-1.8 million years ago).
Megacamelus is a late Hemphil lian giant camel most closely related to Gigantocamelus. Titanotylopus is reserved for the brachyodont form from the Irvingtonian of Nebraska, and Gigantocamelus is reinstated for the broad-chinned, Blancan form.
Paleontology - University of Louisiana at Lafayette Science Museum
2024年6月26日 · Beyond the atrium, a fossil of an extinct giant camel, called Megatylopus, is on display as part of the UL Lafayette Geology collection. The fossil is the most complete skeleton known of the creature, which stood 12-14 feet tall and functioned much like a giraffe.
Camel Evolution (+Camel Evolutionary Timeline ... - The Daily …
2023年10月26日 · Megatylopus was a camelid that existed 14 million years ago in North America, during the Miocene to late Pliocene Epoch. It is one of the first camels that had a hump. Megatylopus was one of the largest camels ever, standing at 11.5 feet tall (3.5m), and weighing around 3700 lbs (1698 kg).
Five Million Year Old Fossils Unsealed at Science Museum
2018年6月6日 · The fossilized skeleton of Megatylopus is an extremely rare paleontological find. With the addition of these fossils, Lafayette Science Museum now holds the most complete Megatylopus skeleton discovered to date.
Megatylopus | Dinopedia | Fandom
Megatylopus (also known as the North American camel) is an extinct and large genus of camelid the family Camelidae, endemic to North America from the Miocene through Late Pliocene—Early Pleistocene boundary 13.6—1.8 mya, existing for approximately 11.8 million years.
ABSTRACT--More complete specimens of the early Blancan camelid Megatylopus (?) cochrani in-dicate that it is a cameline and not closely related to Camelops as has previously been supposed. The latter genus makes its first definite appearance …
Mid-Pliocene warm-period deposits in the High Arctic yield insight …
The North American lineage most closely related to the Paracamelus+Camelus clade is debated, with possible candidates including Megacamelus, Procamelus, and Megatylopus1,2, taxa all only known from localities south of 45°N.
14-foot camel? Lafayette museum receiving replica of one based …
2016年1月19日 · The most complete known skeleton of a 7-million-year-old giant camel, Megatylopus, was uncased Monday at the Lafayette Science Museum in Lafayette. The creature was 12 to 14 feet tall and 14-foot...
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