Camel cataphracts?

[Paullus]

That is what I thought, could be done but a camel is also far more ornery then a horse, would make its own decisions, like you said. The only use of the camel that I know of by the Parthians was at Carrhae where they were used to haul bundles of arrows for the horse archers.

One flaw would be the camel's height that would expose the animal's belly. And we all know how vulnerable Sarmatian and Parthian cataphracts were to having the stomachs of their horses stabbed, how much easier it would be with a camel when you don't have to duck down as much, if at all