Tylopoda

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Tylopoda
Fossil range: Middle Eocene to Recent
Llama
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Tylopoda
Illiger, 1811
Families

 Camelidae
 †Oromerycidae
 †Protoceratidae
 †Xiphodontidae

Tylopoda (meaning "padded foot") is a suborder of the mammalian order Artiodactyla, containing some families, like the Camelidae, Oromerycidae, Protoceratidae, and Xiphodontidae and variably the Oreodontidae and Cainotheriidae, among others. Camels and Llamas are among the better known examples of this suborder.