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
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 Lyrakeryx , to Decennatherium. ^[2]

Description

A juvenile D. rex specimen from Spain suggests that the ontogenetic development of ossicones in the species was similar to that of the modern giraffe. ^[3]

References

1. Rios, Maria; Danowitz, Melinda; Solounias, Nikos (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 . Retrieved 12 August 2025.
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.
3. Ríos, M.; Cantero, E.; Martino, R.; Estraviz-López, D.; Crespo, V. D.; Lohmann, P.; Morales, J. (4 August 2024). "Description of newly discovered cranial remains of Decennatherium rex juveniles from Batallones-10 (Late Miocene, Iberian Peninsula)". Historical Biology : 1–8. doi:10.1080/08912963.2024.2376359. ISSN   0891-2963 . Retrieved 16 June 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.

External links

• Decennatherium at the Paleobiology Database