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''Procamelus'' is an extinct genus of 
It had long legs designed for speed, and was about in height at the shoulder, slightly smaller than a modern llama. Unlike modern camelids, it had a pair of small incisor teeth in the upper jaw. The remaining teeth were large and adapted for eating tough vegetation. The shape of the toes suggests that it possessed foot pads, like modern camels, unlike earlier forms of camelid, which generally had hooves. This would have helped it walk over relatively soft ground. It had a straighter neck than '' Oxydactylus'' or '' Aepycamelus''.
camel
A camel (from: la, camelus and grc-gre, κάμηλος (''kamēlos'') from Hebrew or Phoenician: גָמָל ''gāmāl''.) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus ''Camelus'' that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. C ...
endemic to North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
. It lived from the Middle to Late Miocene 16.0—5.3 mya
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, existing for approximately . The name is derived from the Greek πρό, meaning "before" or denoting priority of order, and κάμελος ("camel"), thus meaning "fore-camel", "early camel" or "predecessor camel".
It had long legs designed for speed, and was about in height at the shoulder, slightly smaller than a modern llama. Unlike modern camelids, it had a pair of small incisor teeth in the upper jaw. The remaining teeth were large and adapted for eating tough vegetation. The shape of the toes suggests that it possessed foot pads, like modern camels, unlike earlier forms of camelid, which generally had hooves. This would have helped it walk over relatively soft ground. It had a straighter neck than '' Oxydactylus'' or '' Aepycamelus''.
References
Prehistoric camelids Prehistoric even-toed ungulate genera Miocene even-toed ungulates Zanclean extinctions Miocene mammals of North America Aquitanian genus first appearances Barstovian Clarendonian Hemphillian Fossil taxa described in 1858 Taxa named by Joseph Leidy {{paleo-eventoedungulate-stub