Alforjas

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}} {{Automatic Taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Late Miocene}} | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Alforjas | authority = Harrison, 1979<ref name="Harrison1979">{{cite journal|last=Harrison|first=J. A|year=1979|title=Revision of the Camelinae (Artiodactyla, Tylopoda) and description of the new genus ''Alforjas''|url=https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/3664|journal=University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions|volume=95|issue=4|pages=1–28|hdl=1808/3664|archive-date=2022-10-24|access-date=2018-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024011141/https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/3664|url-status=dead}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *†''A. taylori'' <small>Harrison, 1979</small><ref name="Harrison1979"/> }} '''''Alforjas''''' is an extinct genus of camelid, endemic to North America. They lived during the Late Miocene 10.3—5.3 mya existing for approximately {{Mya|10-5|million years}}.<ref>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42516 ''Alforjas'' at fossilworks]</ref>

''Alforjas'' is Spanish for the saddle bags used on domestic llamas. The name has a regional association with the meaning of humps or lumps.<ref name="Harrison1979"/> ''Alforjas'' differs from ''Pleiolama'', ''Hemiauchenia'', ''Palaeolama'', and ''Lama'' in its greater height of crown, larger size, and longer snout.<ref name="Harrison1979"/>

The range of the ''Alforjas'' include the Mexican states of Zacatecas and Guanajauto, and the U.S. states of Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska.

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Category:Prehistoric camelids Category:Monotypic prehistoric Artiodactyla genera Category:Miocene Artiodactyla Category:Prehistoric mammals of North America Category:Fossil taxa described in 1979 {{paleo-eventoedungulate-stub}}