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    Hemiauchenia is a genus of laminoid camelids that evolved in North America in the Miocene period about 10 million years ago. This genus diversified and...
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    vicugna Genus: HemiaucheniaHemiauchenia macrocephala †Hemiauchenia minima †Hemiauchenia blancoensis †Hemiauchenia vera †Hemiauchenia paradoxa Genus...
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    ages. North American llamas are categorized as a single extinct genus, Hemiauchenia. Llama-like animals would have been a common sight 25,000 years ago,...
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    jaw. This morphology more closely resembles the cranial morphology of Hemiauchenia than that of modern llamas. The jaw and dental morphology of Palaeolama...
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    not until 2–5 million years ago, during the Pliocene, that the genus Hemiauchenia of the tribe Lamini split into Palaeolama and Lama; the latter would...
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    American Interchange. Most species of lamines, including the genera Hemiauchenia and Palaeolama and all North American species, became extinct at the...
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    show that this species fed on the peccary Platygonus and the llama-like Hemiauchenia. Stable carbon isotope measurements of S. gracilis remains in Florida...
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    hunting of ground sloths (Paramylodon), glyptodonts, tapirs and the llama Hemiauchenia. Proboscideans (especially mammoths) are the most common recorded species...
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    Camelidae Western camel (Camelops hesternus) (H) Stilt legged llamas (Hemiauchenia ssp.) (H) Stout legged llamas (Palaeolama ssp.) (H) Odd-Toed Hoofed Mammals...
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    Smilodon and Panthera atrox for deer (Cervus & Odocoileus), camelids (Hemiauchenia & Camelops), Paramylodon, and peccaries. However, specimens collected...
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