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Decennatherium

Decennatherium was a giraffid with multiple cranial appendages and a distinctive head profile.

Decennatherium was a giraffid with multiple cranial appendages and a distinctive head profile. Its fossils help document a richer giraffe-family history than the living long-necked form alone suggests.

Decennatherium at a glance

Diet
Herbivore
Its feeding anatomy is interpreted as adapted to plant food.
When it lived
Miocene
Group
Giraffidae
Giraffidae

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The real Decennatherium

Decennatherium was a giraffid with multiple cranial appendages and a distinctive head profile. Its fossils help document a richer giraffe-family history than the living long-necked form alone suggests.

The selected species is Decennatherium rex. Its skull provides a distinctive combination of cranial appendages within the diverse fossil history of giraffids.

Fossil discoveries

Madrid, Spain · approximate location
Madrid, Spain

Selected fossil records · present-day map

Map references

Paleobiology Database · M. Rios, I. M. Sanchez, and J. Morales. 2017. A new giraffid (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Pecora) from the late Miocene of Spain, and the evolution of the sivathere-samothere lineage. PLoS ONE 12(e0185378):1-59 ↗

Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.

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  1. Paleobiology Database: Decennatherium rex

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