Giraffa jumae

Giraffa jumae is an extinct species of even-toed ungulate in the Giraffidae family. The species ranged from Malawi to Chad with a possible occurrence of the species or a closely related species found in Turkey. The type specimen was discovered during trenching excavations on the upper member of the Rawi Formation by Louis Leakey in the 1930s. The specimen was found with Ceratotherium simum, Suidae such as Metridiochoerus andrewsi, a Hippopotamus gorgops, and a nearly complete pygmy hippopotamus mandible.

Giraffa jumae

Mauricio Antón, published with Alan Turner · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GiraffaPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Giraffa
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Giraffidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 2.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 56 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 32 of 56 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 23 of 56 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 56 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–4.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.0–3.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.6–3.2 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence404 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.6 Mya774 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

56 occurrences of Giraffa jumae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

56 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

8 formations

Vogel River Series — 3.24°S, 35.18°EVogel River Series — 3.23°S, 36.19°EVogel River Series — 3.01°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EKoobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°EKoobi Fora — 3.77°N, 36.39°EKoobi Fora — 4.08°N, 36.35°EKoobi Fora — 4.13°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.28°EOlduvai — 2.96°S, 35.29°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 34.32°EHadar — 11.14°N, 40.58°EWehaietu — 10.90°N, 40.48°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°EChiwondo — 10.00°S, 33.92°ESagantole — 10.52°N, 40.47°E

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The named rock units Giraffa jumae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Giraffa jumae and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Giraffa jumae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

401 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Giraffa jumae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

18 references

Each of the 56 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 6 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Giraffa jumae

Credit
Mauricio Antón, published with Alan Turner
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Giraffa jumae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGiraffa through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leakey 1967