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Canthumerycinae
Taxonomy
Canthumerycidae was named by Hamilton (1978).
It was reranked as the subfamily Canthumerycinae by Harris et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Giraffoidea by Hamilton (1978), Anyonge (1991) and Mitchell and Skinner (2003); and to Giraffidae by Harris et al. (2010).
It was reranked as the subfamily Canthumerycinae by Harris et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Giraffoidea by Hamilton (1978), Anyonge (1991) and Mitchell and Skinner (2003); and to Giraffidae by Harris et al. (2010).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1978 | Canthumerycidae Hamilton p. 178 |
| 1991 | Canthumerycidae Anyonge p. 385 |
| 2003 | Canthumerycidae Mitchell and Skinner p. 57 |
| 2010 | Canthumerycinae Harris et al. p. 800 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Subfm. †Canthumerycinae Hamilton 1978
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G. †Canthumeryx Hamilton 1973
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†Canthumeryx sirtensis Hamilton 1973
Invalid names: Zarafa Hamilton 1973 [synonym]
G. †Injanatherium Heintz et al. 1981
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†Injanatherium arabicum Morales 1987
†Injanatherium hazimi Heintz 1981
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Miocene | Kenya | Canthumeryx sirtensis (70808) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene | Tanzania | Canthumeryx sp. (89015) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya | Canthumeryx sirtensis (21725 38060 83629) | |
| Burdigalian | Saudi Arabia | Canthumeryx sirtensis (47069 47074) | |
| Langhian | Kenya | Canthumeryx sirtensis (22070) | |
| MN 5 | Tanzania | Canthumeryx sp. (89014) |