High Arctic camel
Pliocene High-Arctic camel reconstruction. ( Image credit: Julius Csotonyi)
REFERENCES
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Buckley, M., C. Lawless, N. Rybczynski. 2019. Collagen sequence analysis of fossil camels, Camelops and c.f. Paracamelus, from the Arctic and sub-Arctic of Plio-Pleistocene North America. Journal of Proteomics. 194:218-225. DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2018.11.014
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Rybczynski N., J.C. Gosse, C.R. Harington, R.A. Wogelius, A.J. Hidy, and M. Buckley. 2013. Mid-Pliocene warm-period deposits in the High Arctic yield insight into camel evolution. Nature Communications. 4:1550. DOI: 10.1038/ ncomms2516.
The first bone fragment of fossil giant-camel in the Canadian High Arctic was discovered in 2006, from the Fyles Leaf Beds site on Ellesmere Island (Nunavut). Additional remains were collected in 2008 and 2010 field seasons, and it was determined the fragments formed part of a tibia. The remains are about 4 million years old and collagen evidence suggests it was likely related to the Pleistocene giant camel of the Yukon, Paracamelus. ​The High Arctic camel was found associated with a paleoenivonrment that was boreal-type forest with patches of tundra.
