Injanatherium Temporal range: Early to Middle Miocene
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I. arabicum | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Giraffidae |
Genus: | †
Injanatherium Heintz, 1981 |
Type species | |
Injanatherium hazimi |
Injanatherium is an extinct genus of giraffids from the Miocene of Iraq, [1] Saudi Arabia, [2] and Pakistan. Species of Injanatherium had at least two pairs of long, wing-like ossicones that emanated laterally above the orbits.
I. hazimi is the type species, originally described by Heintz, et al., in 1981, on the basis of a partial skull found in middle Miocene-aged strata of Injana, Iraq, about 140 km north of Baghdad. [1] The ossicones are broad and more massive in comparison to I. arabicum. [2]
I. arabicum is a second species initially described from a partial skull from early Miocene-aged strata of Saudi Arabia, then later from material found in similarly aged strata from Pakistan. Its ossicones are more triangular and less massive in comparison to I. hazimi. [2]
Injanatherium Temporal range: Early to Middle Miocene
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I. arabicum | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Giraffidae |
Genus: | †
Injanatherium Heintz, 1981 |
Type species | |
Injanatherium hazimi |
Injanatherium is an extinct genus of giraffids from the Miocene of Iraq, [1] Saudi Arabia, [2] and Pakistan. Species of Injanatherium had at least two pairs of long, wing-like ossicones that emanated laterally above the orbits.
I. hazimi is the type species, originally described by Heintz, et al., in 1981, on the basis of a partial skull found in middle Miocene-aged strata of Injana, Iraq, about 140 km north of Baghdad. [1] The ossicones are broad and more massive in comparison to I. arabicum. [2]
I. arabicum is a second species initially described from a partial skull from early Miocene-aged strata of Saudi Arabia, then later from material found in similarly aged strata from Pakistan. Its ossicones are more triangular and less massive in comparison to I. hazimi. [2]