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Tylopoda (meaning "swollen foot") is a suborder of the mammalian order Artiodactyla, containing the camel family. In the past, this group was much more diverse, containing the families Xiphodontidae, Oromerycidae
Oromerycidae

Oromerycidae is a small extinct family_ of artiodactyls closely related to living camels, known from the middle to late Eocene of western North America....
, Protoceratidae
Protoceratidae

Protoceratidae are an extinct, herbivorous group of North American even-toed ungulates. Physically, they resembled deer; however, they were more closely related to camelids....
, Cainotheriidae, and the two families of oreodonts, Agriochoeridae and Merycoidodontidae. However, now it contains only the camels, llamas and alpacas.






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Tylopoda (meaning "swollen foot") is a suborder of the mammalian order Artiodactyla, containing the camel family. In the past, this group was much more diverse, containing the families Xiphodontidae, Oromerycidae
Oromerycidae

Oromerycidae is a small extinct family_ of artiodactyls closely related to living camels, known from the middle to late Eocene of western North America....
, Protoceratidae
Protoceratidae

Protoceratidae are an extinct, herbivorous group of North American even-toed ungulates. Physically, they resembled deer; however, they were more closely related to camelids....
, Cainotheriidae, and the two families of oreodonts, Agriochoeridae and Merycoidodontidae. However, now it contains only the camels, llamas and alpacas.