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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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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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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...
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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
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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Sivatheriinae is a
subfamily of
giraffids characterized by
their robust size,
short limbs, and the
presence of
large complicated ossicones in males. These...
- Shanxi") is an
extinct genus of
superficially moose-like or antelope-like
giraffids from the late
Miocene epoch of
Shanxi Province, China. They are closely...
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Bramatherium (Brahma’s beast) is an
extinct genus of
giraffids that
ranged from
India to
Turkey in Asia. It is
closely related to the
larger Sivatherium...
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Antilocapridae (pronghorns)
Bovidae (cattle, goats,
antelopes etc.). Giraffidae:
Giraffids have a pair of skin
covered bony
bumps on
their heads,
called ossicones...
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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...
