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climacoceratids and the
giraffids all form a
clade of
pecorans known as Giraffomorpha. The
relationship between the
climacoceratids and
giraffids is
supported by...
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genus of
giraffid that
ranged throughout Africa and Eurasia. The
species Sivatherium giganteum is, by weight, one of the
largest giraffids known, and...
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Johnston himself called it a ****adotherium, or a
relative of
other extinct giraffids.
Based on the
description of the
okapi by Pygmies, who
referred to it...
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Sivatheriinae is an
extinct subfamily of
giraffids characterized by
their robust size,
short limbs, and the
presence of
large complicated ossicones in...
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artiodactyls endemic to
North America.
Their closest extant relatives are the
giraffids. Only one species, the
pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), is
living today;...
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genus of medium-sized
giraffids known from the
Miocene of the
Indian subcontinent and Eurasia. It is
distinguished from
other giraffids by the four ossicones...
- may have
shared a
clade with more m****ively
built giraffids like
Sivatherium and Bramatherium.
Giraffids like Palaeotragus,
Shansitherium and Samotherium...
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Palaeotragus ("ancient goat") is a
genus of very large, primitive, okapi-like
giraffids from the
Miocene to
Early Pleistocene of
Africa and Eurasia. Palaeotragus...
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Decennatherium is an
extinct genus of
giraffids. It was
first named by
Crusafont Pairo in 1952. It was only
found at the Macrofauna, Los
Valles de Fuentidueña...
- (Astaracian age),
including frontals with
ossicones ("horn-like"
structures in
giraffids), teeth, and a
mandibular fragment.
Among these is the
holotype (PUPC...
