Global InformationAfrikanokeryx information
| Afrikanokeryx Temporal range: Miocene
(Serravallian-Tortonian) ~ | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Giraffidae |
| Genus: | †Afrikanokeryx Harris, Solounias & Geraads, 2010 |
| Type species | |
| Afrikanokeryx leakeyi Harris, Solounias & Geraads, 2010
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Afrikanokeryx is an extinct monotypic genus of giraffid artiodactyl, closely related to the modern okapi. It lived during the Miocene period in what is today the Ngorora Formation in Kenya. The name of the only species known, A. leakeyi, honours Louis Leakey.[1]
- ^ Harris, J.M.; Solounias, N.; Geraads, D. (2010). "Thirty-Nine: Giraoidea". In Werdelin, L. (ed.). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press. pp. 123–145. doi:10.1525/california/9780520257214.003.0039. ISBN 9780520945425.