Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Parent taxon: Giraffidae according to J. H. Harris et al. 2010
See also Kahn et al. 2010, Khan and Sarwar 2002 and Mitchell and Skinner 2003
Sister taxa: Alcicephalus, Birgerbohlinia, Bohlinia, Bohlininae, Canthumerycinae, Decennatherium, Georgiomeryx, Giraffinae, Giraffini, Giraffokerycinae, Helladotherium, Honanotherium, Okapiinae, Okapini, Palaeogiraffa, Palaeotragini, Palaeotragus, Progiraffa, Propalaeomeryx, Sivatheriini, Umbrotherium, Vishnutherium
Subtaxa: Indratherium Sivatherium
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (3 collections), Pakistan (2), Tanzania (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Uganda (1)
• Pliocene of Chad (3), Ethiopia (2), India (3), Kenya (1), Malawi (2), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), Morocco (1), South Africa (3)
• Miocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1), Libya (1), Tunisia (1)
Total: 37 collections each including a single occurrence