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Palaeotragini
Taxonomy
Palaeotraginae was named by Pilgrim (1911).
It was reranked as the tribe Palaeotragini by Kostopoulos (2009), van der Made and Morales (2011).
It was assigned to Giraffinae by van der Made and Morales (2011); and to Giraffidae by Mitchell and Skinner (2003), Kostopoulos (2009), Harris et al. (2010), Kahn et al. (2010), Athanassiou (2014).
It was reranked as the tribe Palaeotragini by Kostopoulos (2009), van der Made and Morales (2011).
It was assigned to Giraffinae by van der Made and Morales (2011); and to Giraffidae by Mitchell and Skinner (2003), Kostopoulos (2009), Harris et al. (2010), Kahn et al. (2010), Athanassiou (2014).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1911 | Palaeotraginae Pilgrim |
| 2003 | Palaeotraginae Mitchell and Skinner p. 58 |
| 2009 | Palaeotragini Kostopoulos |
| 2010 | Palaeotraginae Harris et al. p. 804 |
| 2010 | Palaeotraginae Kahn et al. p. 121 |
| 2011 | Palaeotragini van der Made and Morales p. 617 |
| 2014 | Palaeotraginae Athanassiou p. 74 |
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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.
Tr. †Palaeotragini Pilgrim 1911
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G. †Mitilanotherium Samson and Radulesco 1966
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Invalid names: Macedonitherium Sickenberg 1967 [synonym], Sogdianotherium Sharapov 1974 [synonym]
G. †Samotherium Forsyth Major 1888
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†Samotherium africanus Churcher 1970
†Samotherium boissieri Forsyth Major 1888
†Samotherium major Bohlin 1926
†Samotherium neumayri Radler and Weihofer 1890
†Samotherium sinense Schlosser 1903
†Samotherium tafeli Kilgus 1922
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Collections (52 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miocene | Kyrgyzstan (Kochkor) | Samotherium sp. (219042) | |
| Serravallian | Kenya (Central Nyanza) | Samotherium africanum (21340) | |
| Serravallian | Ukraine (Cherson) | Samotherium sp. (60256) | |
| Serravallian - Tortonian | Ethiopia | Palaeotraginae indet. (22157) | |
| Sarmatian | Türkiye | Samotherium sp. (56563) | |
| Vallesian | Iraq | Samotherium boissieri (41735) | |
| Vallesian | China (shaanxi) | Paleotragus decipiens (42254) | |
| Tortonian | Moldova | Samotherium boissieri (75802) | |
| Tortonian | Kenya | Samotherium sp. (219711) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Algeria | Samotherium sp. (34643) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Chalkidona) | Samotherium boissieri (182750) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Türkiye (Denizli) | Samotherium major (197642) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | China (Shanxi) | Samotherium sp. (13477) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Türkiye (Usak) | Samotherium ? sp., Samotherium major (34462) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Euboea) | Samotherium sp. (195432) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | China | Samotherium sp. (195283 195284) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Algeria (Oran) | Samotherium sp. (136913) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Aegean) | Samotherium boissieri (202120) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | China (Gansu) | Samotherium sp. (236747) | |
| MN 11 | Greece | Palaeotraginae indet. (73869) | |
| Turolian | Greece (Macedonia) | Bohlinia attica (73553) | |
| Turolian | Türkiye | Samotherium sp. (151910) | |
| Turolian | Kazakhstan | Samotherium irtyshense (34436) | |
| Turolian | Greece | Samotherium boissieri (211913) | |
| Turolian | Greece (Samos) | Samotherium boissieri (202215 202216 202218 202219) Samotherium boissieri, Samotherium major (202217) | |
| Turolian | China (Gansu) | Samotherium sp. (42675) | |
| Turolian | Greece (Samos Island) | Samotherium boissieri (205351 205352) | |
| Turolian | Greece (Central Macedonia) | Samotherium boissieri (32189) | |
| Turolian | Tajikistan (Sor) | Samotherium sp. (34392) | |
| Turolian | Greece (Euboea) | Samotherium sp. (214079) | |
| MN 12 | Ukraine (Odessa) | Samotherium sp. (167995) | |
| Messinian | Greece | Samotherium boissieri (206460) Samotherium major (95689 95690 95691 206462) | |
| Pliocene | Russian Federation (West-Siberia) | Samotherium sp. (44866) | |
| Pliocene | Tajikistan | Sogdianotherium kuruksaense (34444) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Egypt (Al Buhayrah) | Samotherium sp. (42119) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Egypt | Samotherium sp. (22592) | |
| Villafranchian | Greece (Thessaly) | Mitilanotherium martinii (34614) | |
| Villafranchian | Greece (Macedonia) | Mitilanotherium martinii (34594) | |
| Villafranchian - Pleistocene | Greece (Macedonia) | Mitilanotherium martinii (34593) | |
| Gelasian | Spain (Granada) | Mitilanotherium sp. (77773) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Greece (Lesvos) | Mitilanotherium inexpectatum (183341) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene - Pleistocene | Greece (Kozani) | Mitilanotherium martinii (34764) |