A GIRAFFID FROM THE MIDDLE MIOCENE OF THE ISLAND OF CHIOS, GREECE

Authors
DEBONIS L KOUFOS GD SEN S
Citation
L. Debonis et al., A GIRAFFID FROM THE MIDDLE MIOCENE OF THE ISLAND OF CHIOS, GREECE, Palaeontology, 40, 1997, pp. 121-133
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Paleontology
Journal title
Palaeontology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00310239
Volume
40
Year of publication
1997
Part
1
Pages
121 - 133
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-0239(1997)40:<121:AGFTMM>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
A giraffid skull and mandible from the early Mid Miocene Keramaria For mation at Thymania (Island of Chios, Greece) has enabled revision of t he genus Georgiomeryx. The new specimen is compared with Canthumeryx s yrtensis from Libya and Injanatherium from Iraq and Arabia. It is conc luded that all these genera, which have fiat and laterally directed ho rns, belong, together with Giraffokeryx, to the subfamily Canthumeryci nae. New palaeomagnetic data from Chios combined with the presence of the fossil mammals provide new evidence for dating the locality to chr on C5Br or early MN5.