Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Parent taxon: Palaeotragini according to D. S. Kostopoulos 2009
See also Carroll 1988, Geraads 2017, Harris et al. 2010 and Mitchell and Skinner 2003
Sister taxon: Mitilanotherium
Subtaxa: Samotherium africanus Samotherium boissieri Samotherium major Samotherium neumayri Samotherium sinense Samotherium tafeli
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Egypt (2 collections), the Russian Federation (1)
• Turolian of China (1), Greece (11), Kazakhstan (1), Tajikistan (1), Türkiye (2)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), China (5), Greece (8), Iraq (1), Kenya (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Moldova (1), Türkiye (3), Ukraine (2)
Total: 44 collections including 46 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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