SynapsidaCamelidae

Poebrotherium wilsoni

Poebrotherium wilsoni skeletal reconstruction, left lateral view, length ~1.7 m.
Scale bar = 50 centimeters
Taxon
Poebrotherium wilsoni Leidy, 1847
Reconstructed length
~1.7 m (5.5 feet)
View
Left lateral
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2002, revised 2026
Clade
  1. Synapsida
  2. Therapsida
  3. Mammalia
  4. Placentalia
  5. Laurasiatheria
  6. Artiodactyla
  7. Camelidae

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Poebrotherium is an early camel from the Oligocene of North America, roughly the size of a gazelle. Camels actually evolved first in North America, before spreading to Eurasia and South America (as llamas). Poebrotherium already shows the long neck and slender limbs of later camels.

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