Palaeotragus Gaudry, 1861

Laskos, Kostantis & Kostopoulos, Dimitris S., 2025, On the last European giraffe, Palaeotragus ineospectatus (Mammalia: Giraffidae); new remains from the Early Pleistocene of Greece and a review of the species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Statistics in Society) 203 (2), pp. 1-29 : 3

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae056
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14971682
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scientific name	Palaeotragus Gaudry, 1861
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Genus Palaeotragus Gaudry, 1861

Type species: Palaeotragus rouenii Gaudry, 1861 .

Genus diagnosis [based on Geraads (1974) and Churcher (1978)]: Giraffids of small to medium size.Skull wide, with long postorbital cranial part. Ossicones simple, paired, upright, subparallel to each other, pointed, slightly curved backwards and widely separated, inserted on frontals in supraorbital position. Frontals concave between the ossicones. Diastema long; dentition brachyodont, premolar section proportionally long in comparison to the molar. Metapodials elongated, with concave palmar/plantar faces.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Artiodactyla
SubOrder	Ruminantia
Family	Giraffidae

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