The species was properly named in 1901 by A. Nehring, based on a fossil skull and lower jaws collected at the Luchka locality in the lower Volga, with the species name being after Alexander Knobloch, a factory owner in the nearby town of Sarepta interested in fossils who sent the skull in 1880 to the Zoological museum of St.

[1] Remains of Camelus knoblochi span from Ukraine in the west, southwards into the Caucasus and Central Asia, and across the Urals into Mongolia and into Northeast China.

[4][1] During the Late Pleistocene in Mongolia and northern China, the species coexisted alongside other megafauna like the woolly rhinoceros, the giant deer Sinomegaceros ordosianus, Przewalski's horse,[5] Asiatic wild asses, and argali.

[2] At Tsagaan Agui Cave in Mongolia, a metacarpal of the species, dating to around 59-44,000 years Before Present, bears fracture marks as a result of human butchery like to access the marrow cavity, with bite marks showing that it was subsequently gnawed on by cave hyaenas.

[2] The species likely went extinct as a result of unfavourable environmental change, including the aridification of the Gobi Desert around this time.