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    Giraffoidea is a superfamily that includes the families Climacoceratidae, Prolibytheriidae, and Giraffidae. The only extant members in the superfamily...
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    antelopes) Parvorder Giraffomorpha Family †Palaeomerycidae Superfamily Giraffoidea Family Giraffidae (giraffes and okapi) Family †Climacoceratidae Pecorans...
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    Giraffes from the Miocene of Africa and a Revision of the Phylogeny of the Giraffoidea". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B...
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    containing the superfamilies Palaeomerycoidea (Palaeomerycidae) and Giraffoidea (Giraffidae, Prolibytheriidae and Climacoceratidae), of which the giraffe...
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    thermoregulation. Ossicones are only found in some members of the superfamily Giraffoidea, which includes the family Giraffidae (to which giraffes, okapi, and...
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    Climacoceratidae (category Giraffoidea)
    a new family, placing it close to Giraffidae within the superfamily Giraffoidea. They differ from giraffes in that their antler-like ossicones are derived...
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    recent research differentiates the dromomerycids from the Giraffomorpha (Giraffoidea and Palaeomerycoidea) by the lack of sutures on the skull roof that typically...
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    placed in the Climacoceratidae, a sister group within the superfamily Giraffoidea. Fossils of the two best known species of Climacoceras, C. africanus...
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    Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Superfamily: Giraffoidea Family: Giraffidae Gray, 1821 Type genus Giraffa Linnaeus, 1758 Subfamilies...
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    palaeomerycid, or either as a climacoceratid, or as a basal member of Giraffoidea. With the discovery and study of a female skull in 2010, Prolibytherium...
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    the other ranks in the family group (family Giraffidae, superfamily Giraffoidea, subfamily Giraffinae). Author citations for such names (for example...
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    †Palaeomerycidae Family †Hoplitomerycidae Family Cervidae: deer Superfamily Giraffoidea Family †Climacoceratidae Family Giraffidae: giraffe and okapi Superfamily...
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  • S2CID 26877564. Grossman, Ari; Solounias, Nikos (2014). "New fossils of Giraffoidea (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Lothidok Formation (Kalodirr Member...
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  • nov Wang et al. Early Miocene Halamagai Formation  China A member of Giraffoidea belonging to the family Prolibytheriidae. The type species is D. xiezhi...
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  • Giraffes from the Miocene of Africa and a Revision of the Phylogeny of the Giraffoidea". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences...
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  • PMID 17372202. Harris, J.M.; Solounias, N.; Geraads, D. (2010). "Thirty-Nine: Giraffoidea". In Werdelin, L. (ed.). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California...
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  • Harris, John M.; Solounias, Nikos; Geraads, Denis (2010). "Chapter 39: Giraffoidea". In Werdelin, L.; Sanders, W.J (eds.). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University...
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