Classification

• • Superfamily Giraffoidea
    • Family Climacoceratidae
      Climacoceratidae
      Climacoceratidae is a family of superficially deer-like artiodactyl ungulates that were restricted to the Miocene of Africa. They are close to the ancestry of giraffes, with some genera, such as Prolibytherium, having originally identified as being giraffes.The climacoceratids, namely, of what is...
      
      
      • †Climacoceras
        Climacoceras
        Climacoceras was a genus of early Miocene artiodactyl ungulates of Africa and Europe. The members of Climacoceras were related to giraffes, as the genus was once placed within Giraffidae. Fossils of the two best known species of Climacoceras, C. africanus and C. gentryi have been both found in...
        
        
      • †Prolibytherium
        Prolibytherium
        Prolibytherium is an extinct artiodactyl ungulate native to Early Miocene North Africa.The 1.80 m long creature was related to the modern giraffe and okapi. Unlike these, however, Prolibytherium had a set of large, leaf-shaped ossicones with a width of 35 cm...
        
        
    • Family Giraffidae
      Giraffidae
      The giraffids are ruminant artiodactyl mammals that share a common ancestor with deer and bovids. The biological family Giraffidae, once a diverse group spread throughout Eurasia and Africa, contains only two living members, the giraffe and the okapi. Both are confined to sub-saharan Africa: the...
      
      
      • †Bohlinia
        Bohlinia
        Bohlinia is an extinct genus of the artiodactyl family Giraffidae. It was first named by the paleontologist Dr. W. Matthew in 1929, and contains two species, B. adoumi and B. attica. The species B. attica has been reclassified several times since its description being first named Camelopardalis...
        
        
      • †Bramatherium
        Bramatherium
        Bramatherium is an extinct genus of giraffe that ranged from India to Turkey in Asia. It is closely related to the larger Sivatherium.-Etymology:...
        
        
      • Giraffa
        Giraffa
        Giraffa is a genus of mammals in the Giraffidae family. The genus consists of seven species including the giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis, the only extant species.- Species :There are six species in the genus Giraffa....
        
        including the Giraffe
        Giraffe
        The giraffe is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest of all extant land-living animal species, and the largest ruminant...
        
        , Giraffa camelopardalis
      • †Giraffokeryx
        Giraffokeryx
        Giraffokeryx was a primitive giraffid that lived in the Miocene age around 27 million years ago in Asia, Europe, and Africa. It had two pairs of elongated ossicones, one pair above its eyes, and the other pair upon the snout. Although it bore a very superficial resemblance to the modern Okapi, it...
        
        
      • †Helladotherium
        Helladotherium
        Helladotherium is an extinct genus of Sivatherine Giraffid from Europe, Africa, and Asia during the Miocene. The most complete skeleton is that of a female, based on a comparison with an intact female Sivatherium giganteum skull.- Sources :...
        
        
      • †Honanotherium
        Honanotherium
        Honanotherium schlosseri was a giraffid ancestral to the modern giraffe from the late Miocene of Hunan Province, China. It would have resembled a modern giraffe, but, somewhat shorter.-Etymology:...
        
        
      • †Mitilanotherium
        Mitilanotherium
        Mitilanotherium is an extinct genus of giraffe from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Europe.It was a medium-sized giraffid, resembling the modern okapi, with two long ossicones directly above its eyes, and relatively long and slender limbs. Fossils have been found in Greece, Romania, Ukraine, and...
        
        
      • Okapia including the Okapi
        Okapi
        The okapi , Okapia johnstoni, is a giraffid artiodactyl mammal native to the Ituri Rainforest, located in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Central Africa...
        
        , Okapia johnstoni
      • †Paleotragus
      • †Samotherium
        Samotherium
        Samotherium is an extinct genus of giraffe from the Miocene and Pliocene of Eurasia and Africa. Samotherium had two ossicones on its head, and long legs. The ossicones usually pointed upward, and were curved backwards, with males having larger, more curved ossicones, though, in the Chinese...
        
        
      • †Shansitherium
        Shansitherium
        Shansitherium is an extinct genus of superficially moose- or antelope-like giraffe from the late Miocene epoch of Shanxi Province, China. They were closely related to the genus Samotherium....
        
        
      • †Sivatherium
        Sivatherium
        Sivatherium ' is an extinct genus of giraffid that ranged throughout Africa to Southern Asia . The African species, S...
        
        
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