Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Synonym: Achtiaria Borissiak 1914
Parent taxon: Giraffidae according to D. S. Kostopoulos 2016
See also Athanassiou 2014, Belyaeva 1948, Böhme et al. 2017, Carroll 1988, Hamilton 1978, Harris et al. 2010, Kostopoulos 2009, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mitchell and Skinner 2003 and Theodorou et al. 2003
Sister taxa: Alcicephalus, Birgerbohlinia, Bohlinia, Bohlininae, Canthumerycinae, Decennatherium, Georgiomeryx, Giraffinae, Giraffini, Giraffokerycinae, Helladotherium, Honanotherium, Okapiinae, Okapini, Palaeogiraffa, Palaeotragini, Progiraffa, Propalaeomeryx, Sivatheriinae, Sivatheriini, Umbrotherium, Vishnutherium
Subtaxa: Palaeotragus germaini Palaeotragus inexspectatus Palaeotragus lavocati Palaeotragus quadricornis Palaeotragus robinsoni Palaeotragus rouenii
Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (2 collections), Romania (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Spain (1)
• Pliocene of China (4), Greece (1), Kazakhstan (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (1)
• MN 13 of China (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1)
• Neogene of Ukraine (1)
• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Algeria (2), Bulgaria (1), China (12), Ethiopia (1), Georgia (1), Greece (20), Iraq (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (6), Kyrgyzstan (1), Moldova (4), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (3), Syria (1), Tunisia (3), Turkey (4), Ukraine (5)
Total: 86 collections including 95 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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