Georgiomeryx Paraskevaidis 1940 (giraffe)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Giraffidae

Full reference: I. Paraskevaidis . 1940. Eine obermiocäne Fauna von Chios. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 83:363-442

Parent taxon: Giraffidae according to I. Paraskevaidis 1940

See also Mitchell and Skinner 2003

Sister taxa: Alcicephalus, Birgerbohlinia, Bohlinia, Bohlininae, Canthumerycinae, Decennatherium, Giraffinae, Giraffini, Giraffokerycinae, Helladotherium, Honanotherium, Okapiinae, Okapini, Palaeogiraffa, Palaeotragini, Palaeotragus, Progiraffa, Propalaeomeryx, Sivatheriinae, Sivatheriini, Umbrotherium, Vishnutherium

Subtaxa: Georgiomeryx georgalasi

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Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution: found only at Thymiana B (Miocene of Greece)

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