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Camelid Origins
Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?
Koran 88.18
Early Evolution
The earliest camelids evolved forty million years ago on the plains of central North America.
The earliest camelid was a small animal, not much different in size from the ancestor of the modern horse--the eohippis, or dawn horse.
Time Line
| Years Before Present | Geologic Epoch | Geologic Event | Camelid Events | Human Events | ||
| New World | Old World | New World | Old World | |||
| 0 | Holocene [Recent] (0 to 10,000 years ago) |  | | | ||
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| 450 | | | Fall of the Inca Empire (c. 1532) | |||
| 500 | | | Christopher Columbus reaches new world (1492) | |||
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| 9,000 | Western Camel (Camelops Hesternus) becomes extinct | | | |||
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| 10,000 | Pleistocene (10,000 to 1.6 million years ago) | Intense Glaciation | | | | |
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| 400,000 | Intense Glaciation | | | | ||
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| 700,000 | Intense Glaciation | | | | ||
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| 1,000,000 | Intense Glaciation | | | | ||
| 1,500,000 | Pliocene (1.6 to 5 million years ago) | | | | ||
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| 5,000,000 | Miocene (5 to 24 million years ago) | | | | ||
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| 25,000,000 | Oligocene (24 to 38 million year ago) | | | | ||
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| 40,000,000 | Eocene (38 to 55million years ago) | | | | ||
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| 55,000,000 | Paleocene (55 to 65 million years ago) | | | | ||
| 60,000,000 | | | | |||
| 65,000,000 | Cretaceous (65 to 135 million years ago) | | | | ||
| 70,000,000 | | | | |||
Notes to the Time Line
Human Events I have tried to select events in human history that occurred in parts of the world where camelids are common. For example, most listed new world events happened in South America because that is where camelids were usually found in the new world.
