Remarques sur la systématique et la phylogénie des Giraffidae(Artiodactyla, Mammalia)
Abstract
A cladistic analysis, based upon cranial (especially 0112 the nature of «horns), dental and skeletal characters, leads to a definition of the Giraffidae and to a revision of the classical subdivisions. Canthumeryx is the earliest and most primitive Giraffidae. The Sivatheriini, Giraffokeryx and the Giraffini form an unsolved trichotomy. Within the latter tribe, Okapia is the sister-genus of Giraffa.
- Publication:
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Géobios
- Pub Date:
- 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0016-6995(86)80004-3
- Bibcode:
- 1986Geobi..19..465G
- Keywords:
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- Analyse Cladistique;
- Giraffidae;
- Artiodactyla;
- Mammalia