Stevenscamelus
| Stevenscamelus Temporal range: late Eocene
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Camelidae |
| Subfamily: | †Floridatragulinae |
| Genus: | †Stevenscamelus Prothero et al., 2023 |
| Type species | |
| Poebrotherium franki Wilson, 1974
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Stevenscamelus is an extinct genus of floridatraguline camel from the late Eocene of Texas. Fossil remains of the camel come from the Airstrip and Ash Spring local faunas of the Capote Mountain Tuff. The only species, S. franki, was originally described as a species of Poebrotherium, and was placed in its own genus in 2023. The genus is the oldest member of the Floridatraguline. During the late Eocene, the climate of Texas was humid and the paleoenvironment may be compared to some of the forests of Chiapas.