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Giraffa pomeli
Taxonomy
Giraffa pomeli was named by Arambourg (1979). Its type specimen is No. 1938-10:36, a tooth (m2), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Aïn Hanech, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Algeria.
It was considered an invalid subgroup of Palaeotraginae by Harris et al. (2010).
It was considered an invalid subgroup of Palaeotraginae by Harris et al. (2010).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1979 | Giraffa pomeli Arambourg |
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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.
†Giraffa pomeli Arambourg 1979
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Solounias and Moelleken 1993, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range: base of the Calabrian to the top of the Early/Lower Pleistocene or 1.80000 to 0.78100 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Algeria (Northern Algeria) | Giraffa pomeli (type locality: 197944) | |
| Calabrian | Algeria | Giraffa pomeli (22584) |