Shansitherium

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Shansitherium
Temporal range: Late Miocene
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Skeletal mount of S. tafeli, Beijing Museum of Natural History
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Giraffidae
Genus:† Shansitherium
Species
  • †S. fuguensis
  • †S. quadricornis [1]
  • †S. tafeli [2]

Shansitherium ("beast of Shanxi") [2] is an extinct genus of superficially moose-like or antelope-like giraffids from the late Miocene epoch of Shanxi Province, China. They are closely related to the genus Samotherium .

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Species

Illustration of Shansitherium species and Palaeotragus microdon Shansitherium fuguensis.JPG
Illustration of Shansitherium species and Palaeotragus microdon

The genus consists of the following species:

References

  1. 1 2 Bohlin, B., 1926. Die Familie Giraffidae mit besonderen Berucksichtgung der fossilen Formen aus China. Palaeontologia Sinica, ser C. 4. The Geological Survey of China, Peking.
  2. 1 2 3 Killgus, H., 1922. Die unterpliocaenen chinesischen Säugetierreste der Tafelschen Sammlung zu Tübingen (Doctoral dissertation)


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