Helladotherium

Helladotherium Temporal range: Miocene
Skeleton of Helladotherium duvernoyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Giraffidae
Genus:	† Helladotherium
Species
†H. duvernoyi †H. grande

Helladotherium is an extinct genus of sivatheriine giraffid which inhabited Europe, Africa, and Asia during the Miocene. ^[1] The most complete skeleton is that of a female, based on a comparison with an intact female Sivatherium giganteum skull.

Only two species of Helladotherium have been discovered, with H. grande being larger than H. duvernoyi. The former has been found only in Pakistan. ^[2]

List of species

• Helladotherium duvernoyi
• Helladotherium grande

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  Skull
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  Forelimb, Pikermi Former collection Gaudry

Palaeoecology

The dental microwear patterns of H. duvernoyi evidence that this species was folivorous and a browser. ^[3]

References

1. Roussiakis, S; Iliopoulos, G. "Preliminary observations on the metrical variation of Helladotherium duvernoyi and Bohlinia attic" (PDF). University of Athens. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
2. Iliopoulos, George (2003). The Giraffidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) and the study of the histology and chemistry of fossil mammal bone from the Late Miocene of Kerassia (Euboea Island, Greece) (Report). University of Leicester. p. 93.
3. Merceron, Gildas; Colyn, Marc; Geraads, Denis (15 September 2018). "Browsing and non-browsing extant and extinct giraffids: Evidence from dental microwear textural analysis". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . 505: 128–139. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.05.036 . Retrieved 13 August 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.

Sources

• The Evolution of Artiodactyls by Donald R. Prothero and Scott E. Foss
• Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids by Jordi Agusti and Mauricio Anton
• Classification of Mammals by Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell

See also

• Paleontology portal

• Sivatherium
• Giraffokeryx
• Palaeotragus
• Hydaspitherium