# Alforjas

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}
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| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Late Miocene}}
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| 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
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*†''A. taylori'' <small>Harrison, 1979</small><ref name="Harrison1979"/>
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'''''Alforjas''''' is an extinct genus of [camelid](/source/camelid), endemic to [North America](/source/North_America). They lived during the Late [Miocene](/source/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](/source/Spanish_language) 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](/source/Pleiolama)'', ''[Hemiauchenia](/source/Hemiauchenia)'', ''[Palaeolama](/source/Palaeolama)'', and ''[Lama](/source/Guanaco)'' 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](/source/Zacatecas) and [Guanajauto](/source/Guanajuato), and the U.S. states of [Oregon](/source/Oregon), [California](/source/California), [Nevada](/source/Nevada), [Idaho](/source/Idaho), [Arizona](/source/Arizona), [New Mexico](/source/New_Mexico), [Texas](/source/Texas), [Oklahoma](/source/Oklahoma), [Colorado](/source/Colorado), [Kansas](/source/Kansas), and [Nebraska](/source/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
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