Sivatherium Falconer and Cautley 1836 (giraffe)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Giraffidae

Parent taxon: Sivatheriinae according to J. H. Harris et al. 2010

See also Carroll 1988, Kahn et al. 2010 and Mitchell and Skinner 2003

Sister taxon: Indratherium

Subtaxa: Sivatherium hendeyi

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Ethiopia (3 collections), Pakistan (1), Tanzania (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Uganda (1)

• Pliocene of Chad (3), Ethiopia (2), India (3), Kenya (1), Malawi (2), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), Morocco (1), South Africa (3)

• Miocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1), Tunisia (1)

Total: 34 collections each including a single occurrence

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