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Image reference: 30541
Title:
Macrauchenia patachonica and Auchenia llama
Description:
Illustration of cervical vertebrae. Plate 7 from The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Vol. 1 Part 1 Fossil Mammalia, 1838-1839, by Charles Darwin & Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892).
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Collection: Dinosaurs and Extinct Species
Category: Mammals
Theme: Hard and Soft
Keywords: america, animal, auchenia, beagle, bone, cervical, darwin, charles robert (1809-1882), darwin200, detail, drawing, engraving, fitzroy, robert (1805-1865), illustration, llama, macrauchenia, mammal, monochrome, osteological, osteology, plate, south, study, vertebra, voyage, zoological, zoology
Genus/Species :
Macrauchenia patachonica
Auchenia llama
© The Natural History Museum, London
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| | Macrauchenia patachonica means 'long llama'. A herbivorous, ungulate mammmal, it lived 7 million-20,000 years ago. Collected by Charles Darwin (1809-1882); the first skeleton of the species ever to be found, during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, 1832-36, commanded by Captain Robert Fitzroy (1805-1865), which explored the southern shores of South America. More fossilised remains have since been discovered in Argentina.
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