Palaeolama weddelli (Gervais, 1855)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution & Habitat

Bolivia

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Castillo, Andrea G., Corti, Paulo and Samaniego, Horacio. (2026). Wild South American camelids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): a review of their evolutionary and biogeographic history. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2026.2616326

Coltorti M., Abbazzi L., Ferretti M.P., Iacumin P., Rios F.P., Pellegrini M., Pieruccini P., Rustioni M., Tito G., Rook L. 2007 Last Glacial mammals in South America: a new scenario from the Tarija Basin (Bolivia). Naturwissenschaften 94(4), 288-299.

Lemoine, Rhys Taylor, Buitenwerf, Robert, Faurby, Sören and Svenning, Jens-Christian. (2025). Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(7): e70078. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70078 [Supporting Information: Data S1]

Scherer, C.S., 2009. Os Camelidae Lamini (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) do Pleistoceno da Ame´ rica do Sul: aspectos taxonomicos e filogene´ticos. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Instituto de Geociencias, Programa de Po´ s-Graduacao en Geociencias, Porto Alegre, Brasil (Ph.D. thesis, unpubl.).

Scherer C.S. 2012 The Camelidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the Quaternary of South America: Cladistic and biogeographic hypotheses. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 1-12.

Smith F.A., Lyons S.K., Ernest S.K.M., Jones K.E., Kaufman D.M., Dayan T., Marquet P.A., Brown J.H., Haskell J.P. 2003 Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84(12), 3403-3403.

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