Yesterday’s Camel Skull Replica

Description

Yesterday’s Camel Skull Replica measures 22.0 inches. Yesterday’s Camel Skull Replica is museum-quality polyurethane cast. 2-part skull (separate cranium and jaw). Original cast from LACMNH Page Museum La Brea replica. 1:1 scale. Made in USA.

Yesterday’s Camel or Camelops hesternus is an extinct genus of camels that lived in Western North America, ranging from Alaska to Mexico, from the middle Pliocene to the end of the Pleistocene.

The genus Camelops hesternus first appeared during the middle Pliocene (about 4.0–3.2 million years ago (Mya) in southern North America and became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene (around 10,000 years ago).

Despite the fact that camels are popularly associated with the deserts of Asia and Africa, the family Camelidae, which comprises camels and llamas, originated in North America during the middle Eocene period, at least 44 Mya.

Both the camel and horse families originated in the Americas and migrated into Eurasia via the Bering Strait.

Camels first appeared in North American about 50 million years ago and about 7 million years ago camels migrated to Asia where they evolved into the modern Bactrian and dromedary camels. About 2 million years ago, camels migrated South America where they evolved into llamas.

Scientific Classification:

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Mammalia
• Order: Artiodactyla
• Family: Camelidae
• Genus: †Camelops

The elongated, herbivorous profile of the Yesterday’s Camel represents the primary prey that once sustained the massive, bone-crushing power of the American Lion across the Pleistocene landscape.