Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Synonyms: Camelopardalis Schreber 1784, Orasius Oken 1816, Trachelotherium Gistl 1848
Full reference: M. J. Brisson. 1762. Regnum Animale in classes IX distributum, sive synopsis methodica, Ed. 2
Parent taxon: Giraffini according to A. Hassanin and E. J. P. Douzery 2003
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Carroll 1988, Dagg 1971, Gray 1825, Harris et al. 2010, Kahn et al. 2010, Lydekker 1876, Mitchell and Skinner 2003 and Owen 1848
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Camelopardalis microdon Camelopardalis sivalensis Giraffa camelopardalis Giraffa jumae Giraffa pomeli Giraffa priscilla Giraffa punjabiensis Giraffa pygmaea Giraffa sivalensis Giraffa stillei
Type: Cervus camelopardalis
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (2 collections), Ethiopia (9), Japan (1), Kenya (58), South Africa (4), Sudan (7), Syria (1), Tanzania (17), Turkey (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (2), Kenya (1), Malawi (1)
• Pliocene of Chad (1), China (1), Ethiopia (5), Georgia (1), Kenya (14), Malawi (3), Senegal (1), South Africa (4), Tanzania (28), Turkey (1), Uganda (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2), South Africa (2), Tanzania (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Georgia (1), Greece (2), India (1), Kenya (3), Moldova (1), Pakistan (2), the Russian Federation (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 185 collections including 272 occurrences
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