Decennatherium

Decennatherium Temporal range: Late Miocene (Tortonian) 11.6–7.8  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Skull of the male D. rex holotype specimen
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Giraffidae
Genus:	† Decennatherium Crusafont, 1952
Species [1]
D. pachecoiCrusafont, 1952 D. crusafontiBosscha-Erbrink, 1976 D. rexRíos, Sánchez & Morales, 2017 D. asiaticumRíos, Danowitz & Solounias, 2019

Decennatherium is an extinct genus of giraffids. The genus contains a total of four species with two species from Spain, D. pachecoi and D. rex, and two species respectively from Iran and Pakistan, D. crusafonti and D. asiaticum. ^[1] In 2025, Solounias and Danowitz assigned the YGSP 47357, 6392, and 47192, previously referred to "Lyra" sherkana , to Decennatherium. ^[2]

References

1. Maria Rios; Melinda Danowitz; Nikos Solounias (2019). "First identification of Decennatherium Crusafont, 1952 (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Pecora) in the Siwaliks of Pakistan". Geobios. 57: 97–110. Bibcode:2019Geobi..57...97R. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2019.10.007. S2CID   212818436.
2. Solounias, N.; Danowitz, M. (2025). "Siwalik Giraffoidea". In Badgley, C.; Morgan, M.E.; Pilbeam, D. (eds.). At the Foot of the Himalayas: Paleontology and Ecosystem Dynamics of the Siwalik Record. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 361. ISBN   978-1421450278.

External links

• Decennatherium at the Paleobiology Database