Giraffidae

Giraffidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
giraffePBDB
Sits inside
GiraffomorphaPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 707 occurrencesMiocene — about 299 of 707 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 192 of 707 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 203 of 707 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 10 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 13 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 14 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 20 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 21 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 22 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 25 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 31 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 30 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 32 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 32 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 38 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 36 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 64 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 84 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 81 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 75 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 35 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

707 occurrences of Giraffidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

707 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

109 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°EKoobi Fora — 4.26°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 3.78°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 3.77°N, 36.39°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.22°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EVogel River Series — 3.24°S, 35.18°EVogel River Series — 3.22°S, 35.01°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.23°S, 36.19°EVogel River Series — 3.01°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EOlduvai — 2.96°S, 35.29°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 34.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°ENachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.72°ENachukui — 4.00°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.16°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 3.89°N, 35.75°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°EChiwondo — 10.00°S, 33.92°EChiwondo — 9.92°S, 34.92°EChiwondo — 10.05°S, 33.96°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EVihowa — 30.08°N, 70.33°EMytilinii — 37.75°N, 26.89°EMytilinii — 37.74°N, 26.89°EChinji — 32.68°N, 72.37°EChinji — 32.93°N, 71.66°EChinji — 33.53°N, 73.55°EChinji — 32.79°N, 72.93°EBahe — 33.50°N, 109.50°EBahe — 34.15°N, 109.33°EPikermi — 38.04°N, 23.72°EPikermi — 38.00°N, 23.95°ESagantole — 10.62°N, 40.58°ESagantole — 10.63°N, 40.54°ESagantole — 10.45°N, 40.45°ESagantole — 10.47°N, 40.50°EManchar — 26.33°N, 67.83°ENikiti — 40.23°N, 23.70°ENea Messimvria — 40.77°N, 22.75°ENea Messimvria — 40.74°N, 22.86°EKanapoi — 2.37°N, 36.08°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EAdu-Asa — 10.43°N, 40.42°EFejej — 5.00°N, 37.00°EWembere-Manonga — 3.87°S, 33.72°EWembere-Manonga — 3.09°S, 33.73°EWembere-Manonga — 4.03°S, 33.77°EWarwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°EHadar — 11.14°N, 40.58°EOlorgesailie — 1.57°S, 36.44°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EMaboko — 0.15°S, 34.60°EMaboko — 0.15°N, 34.62°EWehaietu — 10.90°N, 40.48°EWehaietu — 10.63°N, 40.54°E

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The named rock units Giraffidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 85 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 237 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Giraffidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Giraffidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,035 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 492 sites for Giraffidae, and this reads 240 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

260 references

Each of the 707 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. 248 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 content2

Picture of Giraffidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
klrxyz
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1821