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Samotherium
Taxonomy
Samotherium was named by Forsyth Major (1888). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Palaeotragini by Kostopoulos (2009); to Palaeotraginae by Mitchell and Skinner (2003) and Harris et al. (2010); and to Giraffidae by Carroll (1988) and Geraads (2017).
It was assigned to Palaeotragini by Kostopoulos (2009); to Palaeotraginae by Mitchell and Skinner (2003) and Harris et al. (2010); and to Giraffidae by Carroll (1988) and Geraads (2017).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1888 | Samotherium Forsyth Major |
1988 | Samotherium Carroll |
2003 | Samotherium Mitchell and Skinner p. 58 |
2009 | Samotherium Kostopoulos |
2010 | Samotherium Harris et al. p. 805 |
2017 | Samotherium Geraads |
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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. †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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References: Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Solounias and Moelleken 1993, Hendy et al. 2009 |
Age range: base of the Serravallian to the top of the Late/Upper Pliocene or 13.82000 to 2.58800 Ma
Collections (41 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Serravallian | Ukraine (Cherson) | S. sp. (60256) | |
Serravallian | Kenya (Central Nyanza) | S. africanum (21340) | |
Tortonian | Kenya | S. sp. (219711) | |
Tortonian | Moldova | S. boissieri (75802) | |
Vallesian | Iraq | S. boissieri (41735) | |
Vallesian | China (shaanxi) | Paleotragus decipiens (42254) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | China (Shanxi) | S. sp. (13477) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Euboea) | S. sp. (195432) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Turkey (Usak) | S. ? sp., S. major (34462) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Chalkidona) | S. boissieri (182750) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Turkey (Denizli) | S. major (197642) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Algeria | S. sp. (34643) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Aegean) | S. boissieri (202120) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | China | S. sp. (195283 195284) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Algeria (Oran) | S. sp. (136913) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Turkey | S. sp. (56563) | |
Turolian | Kazakhstan | S. irtyshense (34436) | |
Turolian | Greece (Samos) | S. boissieri (202215 202216 202218 202219) S. boissieri, S. major (202217) | |
Turolian | China (Gansu) | S. sp. (42675) | |
Turolian | Turkey | S. sp. (151910) | |
Turolian | Greece (Euboea) | S. sp. (214079) | |
Turolian | Greece (Central Macedonia) | S. boissieri (32189) | |
Turolian | Greece (Macedonia) | Bohlinia attica (73553) | |
Turolian | Greece (Samos Island) | S. boissieri (205351 205352) | |
Turolian | Greece | S. boissieri (211913) | |
Turolian | Tajikistan (Sor) | S. sp. (34392) | |
MN 12 | Ukraine (Odessa) | S. sp. (167995) | |
Messinian | Greece | S. boissieri (206460) S. major (95689 95690 95691 206462) | |
Pliocene | Russian Federation (West-Siberia) | S. sp. (44866) | |
Late/Upper Pliocene | Egypt | S. sp. (22592) | |
Late/Upper Pliocene | Egypt (Al Buhayrah) | S. sp. (42119) |