Samotherium Forsyth Major 1888 (giraffe)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Giraffidae

Parent taxon: Palaeotragini according to D. S. Kostopoulos 2009

See also Carroll 1988, Geraads 2017, Harris et al. 2010 and Mitchell and Skinner 2003

Sister taxon: Mitilanotherium

Subtaxa: Samotherium africanus Samotherium boissieri Samotherium major Samotherium neumayri Samotherium sinense Samotherium tafeli

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Egypt (2 collections), the Russian Federation (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), China (5), Greece (19), Iraq (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (2), Moldova (1), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (4), Ukraine (2)

Total: 41 collections including 43 occurrences

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