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Michenia, a new protolabine (Mammalia, Camelidae) and a brief review of the early taxonomic history of the genus Protolabis

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Michenia, a new protolabine (Mammalia, Camelidae) and a brief review of the early taxonomic history of the genus Protolabis

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Alternative: Brief review of the early taxonomic history of the genus Protolabis

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Series: American Museum novitates, no. 2444

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Frick, Childs, 1883-1965

Taylor, Beryl E.

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New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, [1971]

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Title from caption.

"January 21, 1971."

Specimens of Michenia agatensis collected during the Vertebrate Paleontology Expedition of 1908.

"Since Protolabis Cope (1876) was described, species of this genus, including the type species have frequently been confused with those of Procamelus and Miolabis. A brief taxonomic history of Protolabis, as well as a clarification of the type species, is given along with characters that distinguish Protolabis from both Procamelus and Miolabis. Michenia agatensis, a specialized camelid of smaller size, near the base of the evolutionary radiation of the protolabines, is also described. Although its ancestry is unknown, Michenia agatensis more closely resembles Dyseotylopus migrans Stock from the upper part of the Sespe Formation of California than any other known Arikareean camelid"--P. 21-22.