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Palaeotragus
Taxonomy
Palaeotragus was named by Gaudry (1861). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Palaeotragini by Kostopoulos (2009); to Palaeotraginae by Mitchell and Skinner (2003), Harris et al. (2010) and Athanassiou (2014); and to Giraffidae by Hamilton (1978), Carroll (1988), Theodorou et al. (2003), Kostopoulos (2016) and Böhme et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Palaeotragini by Kostopoulos (2009); to Palaeotraginae by Mitchell and Skinner (2003), Harris et al. (2010) and Athanassiou (2014); and to Giraffidae by Hamilton (1978), Carroll (1988), Theodorou et al. (2003), Kostopoulos (2016) and Böhme et al. (2017).
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1861 | Palaeotragus Gaudry |
| 1914 | Achtiaria Borissiak |
| 1948 | Achtiaria Belyaeva p. 51 |
| 1978 | Palaeotragus Hamilton p. 185 |
| 1988 | Palaeotragus Carroll |
| 2003 | Palaeotragus Mitchell and Skinner p. 58 |
| 2003 | Palaeotragus Theodorou et al. |
| 2009 | Palaeotragus Kostopoulos |
| 2010 | Palaeotragus Harris et al. p. 804 |
| 2014 | Palaeotragus Athanassiou p. 74 |
| 2016 | Palaeotragus Kostopoulos |
| 2017 | Palaeotragus Böhme et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Palaeotragus Gaudry 1861
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†Palaeotragus germaini Arambourg 1959
†Palaeotragus inexspectatus Samson and Radulesco 1966
†Palaeotragus lavocati Heintz 1976
†Palaeotragus quadricornis Bohlin 1926
†Palaeotragus robinsoni Crusafont-Pairó 1979
†Palaeotragus rouenii Gaudry 1861
Invalid names: Achtiaria Borissiak 1914 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Athanassiou 2014 | (based on Geraads 1974 and Churcher 1978): Giraffids of small to medium size. Skull wide with long postorbital cranial part. Ossicones simple, paired, upright, subparallel to each other, pointed, slightly curved and widely separated, borne on frontals in supraorbital position. Frontals concave between the ossicones. Diastema long; dentition brachyodont, premolar section proportionally long. Metapodials elongate with concave palmar/plantar faces. |