Camelini

{{Short description|Tribe of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Miocene|Recent}}

| image = Abhay Resort Karnu.jpg

| image_caption = Camelus dromedarius

| taxon = Camelini

| authority = Gray, 1821{{cite book | last1 = McKenna | first1 = Malcolm Carnegie | last2 = Bell | first2 = Susan K. | year = 1997 | publisher = Columbia University Press | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-231-11013-6 | pages = 631 | title = Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level}}

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = *Camelus

• {{extinct}}Camelops
• {{extinct}}Gentilicamelus
• {{extinct}}Gigantocamelus
• {{extinct}}Hesperocamelus
• {{extinct}}Megacamelus
• {{extinct}}Megatylopus
• {{extinct}}Michenia
• {{extinct}}Paracamelus
• {{extinct}}Paratylopus
• {{extinct}}Procamelus
• {{extinct}}Tanymykter
• {{extinct}}Titanotylopus

}}

Camelini is a tribe of camelids including all camelids more closely related to modern camels (Camelus) than to Lamini (which contains llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos), from which camelines split approximately 17 million years ago.{{Cite journal |last1=Lynch |first1=Sinéad |last2=Sánchez-Villagra |first2=Marcelo R. |last3=Balcarcel |first3=Ana |date=December 2020 |title=Description of a fossil camelid from the Pleistocene of Argentina, and a cladistic analysis of the Camelinae |journal=Swiss Journal of Palaeontology |language=en |volume=139 |issue=1 |page=5 |doi=10.1186/s13358-020-00208-6 |issn=1664-2376 |pmc=7590954 |pmid=33133011 |doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last1=Buckley |first1=Michael |last2=Lawless |first2=Craig |last3=Rybczynski |first3=Natalia |date=March 2019 |title=Collagen sequence analysis of fossil camels, Camelops and c.f. Paracamelus, from the Arctic and sub-Arctic of Plio-Pleistocene North America |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1874391918304044 |journal=Journal of Proteomics |language=en |volume=194 |pages=218–225 |doi=10.1016/j.jprot.2018.11.014}} The tribe originated in North America, with the genus Paracamelus migrating over the Bering Land Bridge into Eurasia during the Late Miocene, around 6 million years ago, becoming ancestral to Camelus.{{Cite journal |last1=Heintzman |first1=Peter D. |last2=Zazula |first2=Grant D. |last3=Cahill |first3=James A. |last4=Reyes |first4=Alberto V. |last5=MacPhee |first5=Ross D.E. |last6=Shapiro |first6=Beth |date=September 2015 |title=Genomic Data from Extinct North American Camelops Revise Camel Evolutionary History |url=https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/molbev/msv128 |journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution |language=en |volume=32 |issue=9 |pages=2433–2440 |doi=10.1093/molbev/msv128 |issn=0737-4038 |pmid=26037535|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last1=Rybczynski |first1=Natalia |last2=Gosse |first2=John C. |last3=Richard Harington |first3=C. |last4=Wogelius |first4=Roy A. |last5=Hidy |first5=Alan J. |last6=Buckley |first6=Mike |date=June 2013 |title=Mid-Pliocene warm-period deposits in the High Arctic yield insight into camel evolution |journal=Nature Communications |language=en |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=1550 |bibcode=2013NatCo...4.1550R |doi=10.1038/ncomms2516 |issn=2041-1723 |pmc=3615376 |pmid=23462993}}{{cite book |author1=Singh |title=Evolutionary Biology |author2=Tomar |publisher=Rastogi Publications |isbn=9788171336395 |edition=8th revised |location=New Delhi |page=334}} The last member of Camelini in North America was Camelops, which became extinct as part of the Quaternary extinction event at the end of the Late Pleistocene, around 12,000 years ago.