Giraffokeryx was a primitive giraffid that lived in the Miocene

Miocene

The Miocene is a geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about . The Miocene was named by Sir Charles Lyell. Its name comes from the Greek words and and means "less recent" because it has 18% fewer modern sea invertebrates than the Pliocene. The Miocene follows the Oligocene...

 age around 27 million years ago in Asia, Europe, and Africa. It had two pairs of elongated ossicone

Ossicone

Ossicones are horn-like protuberances on the heads of giraffes, male okapis, and their extinct relatives, such as Sivatherium, and the climacoceratids, such as Climacoceras. Only giraffids have true ossicones...

s, one pair above its eyes, and the other pair upon the snout. Although it bore a very superficial resemblance to the modern 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...

, it was closely related to the sivatheres 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:...

and Sivatherium

Sivatherium

Sivatherium ' is an extinct genus of giraffid that ranged throughout Africa to Southern Asia . The African species, S...

. Its full scientific name is Giraffokeryx punnjabiensis.