†tribe Palaeotragini Pilgrim 1911 (giraffe)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Giraffidae

Alternative spelling: Palaeotraginae

Parent taxon: Giraffidae according to D. S. Kostopoulos 2009

See also Athanassiou 2014, Harris et al. 2010, Kahn et al. 2010, Mitchell and Skinner 2003 and van der Made and Morales 2011

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

Subtaxa: Mitilanotherium Samotherium

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Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Greece (2 collections), Spain (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Greece (1)

• Pliocene of Egypt (2), Greece (2), the Russian Federation (1), Tajikistan (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), China (5), Ethiopia (1), Greece (20), Iraq (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (2), Moldova (1), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (4), Ukraine (2)

Total: 50 collections including 52 occurrences

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