Camelops hesternus Skull Replica

Description

Camelops hesternus skull replica measures 22.0 x 11.0 x 11.5 inches. The skull is a museum-quality polyurethane resin cast of a Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen. 2-part skull (separate cranium and mandible). 1:1 scale. Made in USA.

Fossil hunters find bones of this extinct camel in Western North America. These ancient camels lived from the middle Pliocene to the end of the Pleistocene. They share a common ancestor with modern dromedary and Bactrian camels.

One-humped camels evolved from two-humped camels. This species grew to over seven feet tall at the shoulder. They shared a similar height with the modern Bactrian camels.

Like modern camels, they used their tough, leathery lips to strip leaves from thorny branches. They also ate coarse shrubs, low woody bushes, Saltbush, and drought-tolerant grasses.

Scientific Classification

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Mammalia
• Order: Artiodactyla
• Family: Camelidae
• Genus: †Camelops
• Species: †C. hesternus
• Binomial name: †Camelops hesternus
• Conservation Status: Extinct

Flashback, the Camelops hesternus skull replica, is at the lake skipping rocks with his friends.

Double Dip, the Bactrian camel skull replica, ran off to go swing on the rope swing on the other side of the lake.

Uno, the Dromedary camel skull replica, climbed into a canoe and is rowing across the lake to join Double Dip on the rope swing.

Poppy, the Oligocene camel skull replica, just caught a huge bass using the fishing pole he found leaning up against a tree.