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Fig. 8

From: Evolutionary Transitions in the Fossil Record of Terrestrial Hoofed Mammals

Fig. 8

The family tree of camels, showing the great diversity of forms, from small primitive deer-like creatures to the gazelle-like stenomylines, the short-legged protolabines and miolabines, the long-legged long-necked “giraffe camels,” and the modern humpless South American camels (alpaca, llama, vicuña, guanaco), which are more typical of the whole family. Only the living African dromedary and two-humped Asian Bactrian camels have humps (after Prothero 1994)

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