Palaeotragus ("ancient goat") is a genus of very large, primitive, okapi-like giraffids from the Miocene to Early Pleistocene of Africa and Eurasia.
Palaeotragus primaevus is the older species, being found in early to mid-Miocene strata, while P. germaini is found in Late Miocene strata. P. primaevus is distinguished from P. germaini by the lack of ossicones. It was also the smaller species, being a little under 2 m (6 ft 7 in) at the shoulders. P. germaini had a pair of ossicones, and in life, it would have resembled either a short-necked, 3 m (9.8 ft) tall giraffe, or a gargantuan okapi.
Palaeotragus inexspectatus from the Early Pleistocene of Greece represents the youngest giraffid in Europe.[2]
^ abGaudry 1861
^Laskos, Kostantis; Kostopoulos, Dimitris S (2024-05-17). "On the last European giraffe, Palaeotragus inexspectatus (Mammalia: Giraffidae); new remains from the Early Pleistocene of Greece and a review of the species". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae056. ISSN 0024-4082.
Giraffa on the basis of cladistic analysis. The two genera together with Palaeotragus constitute the tribe Giraffini. The earliest members of the Giraffidae...
africanus (left foreground), and C. gentryi (right foreground), with Palaeotragus primeavus (left background), and P. germaini (right background) Scientific...
massively built giraffids like Sivatherium and Bramatherium. Giraffids like Palaeotragus, Shansitherium and Samotherium appeared 14 mya and lived throughout Africa...
antelope, the hippo Kenyapotamus, the rhino Kenyatherium, the giraffe Palaeotragus, the horse Hipparion, the elephant-like proboscideans Deinotherium and...
Anton Classification of Mammals by Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell Paleontology portal Sivatherium Giraffokeryx Palaeotragus Hydaspitherium v t e...
a hippo, the pig Nyanzachoerus, the antelope-like siveratheriine and Palaeotragus, a bosalephine antelope, wild cattle, the horse Cormohipparion and an...
equid Hipparion and the rhinoceros Aceratherium, as well as the giraffid Palaeotragus and proboscideans. The discoveries at Member D of the Ngorora Formation...
Brachypotherium and Ceratotherium, the equid Eurygnathohippus, the giraffe Palaeotragus, the suid Nyanzochoerus and a variety of bovids, including Aepyceros...
lineage. Laskos & Kostopoulos (2024) describe new fossil material of Palaeotragus inexspectatus from Villafranchian localities in Greece, and interpret...
Aceratherium, the hog Microstonyx, the deer Procapreolus, the giraffid Palaeotragus, and the bovids Oioceros, Paraoioceros and Tragocerus. Burchak-Abramovich...
horse (Hipparion coelophyes), one deer (Dicrocerus sp.), one giraffid (Palaeotragus microdon), and three bovids (Sinotragus wimani, Tsaidamotherium hedini...
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the rhinoceros Paradiceros, the suid Listriodon juba, the giraffid Palaeotragus lavocati and the antelope Benicerus theobaldi, as well as an abundant...
of tribe Machairodontini, related to Hemimachairodus and Machairodus. Palaeotragus P. decepiens An early giraffid P. microdon An early giraffid Samotherium...
Protictitherium and Lycyaena, the barbourofelid Vampyrictis, the primitive giraffe Palaeotragus, the anthracothere Libycosaurus and possibly the proboscidean Choerolophodon...
Palaeotragus from the Vallesian of northern Greece, and a systematic revision of large-sized Late Miocene Eurasian members of the genus Palaeotragus,...
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