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, Bramiscus, Canthumerycinae, Decennatherium, Georgiomeryx, Giraffinae, Giraffini, Giraffokerycinae, Helladotherium, Honanotherium, Lyrakeryx, Okapiinae, Okapini, Palaeogiraffa, Palaeotragus, Progiraffa, Propalaeomeryx, Schansitherium, Sivatheriinae, Sivatheriini, Umbrotherium, Vishnutherium
Subtaxa: Mitilanotherium Samotherium
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (2 collections), Spain (1)
• Villafranchian of Greece (3)
• Pliocene of Egypt (2), the Russian Federation (1), Tajikistan (1)
• Turolian of China (1), Greece (11), Kazakhstan (1), Tajikistan (1), Türkiye (2)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), China (5), Ethiopia (1), Greece (9), Iraq (1), Kenya (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Moldova (1), Türkiye (3), Ukraine (2)
Total: 53 collections including 55 occurrences