Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Parent taxon: Sivatheriinae according to J. H. Harris et al. 2010
See also Carroll 1988, Kahn et al. 2010 and Mitchell and Skinner 2003
Sister taxon: Indratherium
Subtaxa: Sivatherium giganteum Sivatherium hendeyi Sivatherium olduvaiense
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (3 collections), Pakistan (2), Tanzania (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Uganda (1)
• Pliocene of Chad (3), Ethiopia (2), India (4), Kenya (1), Malawi (2), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), Morocco (1), South Africa (3)
• Miocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1), Tunisia (1)
Total: 36 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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