Protylopus is an extinct genus of camel that lived during middle to late Eocene some 50-40 million years ago in North America.
Protylopus petersoni skull 2
The Eocene is a geological epoch that began about 56 million years ago. It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The end point of the Eocene is the Eocene-Oligocene t
Protylopus
…Protylopus is an extinct genus of camel that lived during middle to late Eocene some 50-40 million years ago in North America. Along with being the oldest camel known, it was also the smallest, reaching a length of 80 centimetres…
Subdivisions of the Eocene
Eocene vegetation of the Clarno Nut Beds in John Day Fossil Beds National Monument was humid subtropical forest vegetation of high diversity dominated by angiosperms.
Nuphar seeds, Nymphaeaceae, Ypresian
Mastixia tree seed, Nyssaceae, London Clay