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Prolibytherium
Taxonomy
Prolibytherium was named by Arambourg (1961). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Giraffidae by Carroll (1988); to Climacoceridae by Pickford et al. (2001); to Palaeomerycidae by Prothero and Liter (2007); to Pecora by Cote (2010); and to Climacoceratidae by Mitchell and Skinner (2003) and Danowitz et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Giraffidae by Carroll (1988); to Climacoceridae by Pickford et al. (2001); to Palaeomerycidae by Prothero and Liter (2007); to Pecora by Cote (2010); and to Climacoceratidae by Mitchell and Skinner (2003) and Danowitz et al. (2016).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1961 | Prolibytherium Arambourg |
| 1988 | Prolibytherium Carroll |
| 2001 | Prolibytherium Pickford et al. p. 647 |
| 2003 | Prolibytherium Mitchell and Skinner p. 64 figs. Figure 16 |
| 2007 | Prolibytherium Prothero and Liter p. 244 |
| 2010 | Prolibytherium Cote p. 741 |
| 2016 | Prolibytherium Danowitz et al. p. 203 |
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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.
G. †Prolibytherium Arambourg 1961
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†Prolibytherium fusus Danowitz et al. 2016
†Prolibytherium magnieri Arambourg 1961
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: MN 4 or 16.90000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Aquitanian - Burdigalian | Libya | P. magnieri (42130) | |
| Burdigalian - Serravallian | Pakistan (Baluchistan) | P. fusus (180613) | |
| MN 4 | Egypt | P. magnieri (53970) |