Camelini Temporal range: Eocene–Recent |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Camelidae |
Subfamily: | Camelinae |
Tribe: |
Camelini Nordmann (1850) |
Genera | |
Camelus
†Camelops
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Camelini is a tribe of terrestrial herbivore the family Camelidae, endemic to Asia, North America, and Africa from the Late Eocene to the present. It includes the living genus Camelus as the type genus. At least one genus, Eulamaops, reached South America.
Camelini was named by Gray (1821). It was assigned to Camelinae by Stanley et al. (1994).