Helladotherium

Helladotherium is an extinct genus of sivatheriine giraffid which inhabited Europe, Africa, and Asia during the Miocene. The most complete skeleton is that of a female, based on a comparison with an intact female Sivatherium giganteum skull.

Helladotherium

Karl von Zittel · Public Domain · 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
GiraffidaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Giraffidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Giraffidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 1.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 8.725 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesMiocene — about 32 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 33 occurrencesPliocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.6–7.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.9–7.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.2–6.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.5–5.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.8–5.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.1–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–3.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.725 Mya – 7.246 Mya23.5 Mya3.1 Mya

33 occurrences of Helladotherium on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

33 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

6 formations

Nikiti — 40.23°N, 23.70°ETriglia — 40.03°N, 23.47°EGonia — 40.37°N, 23.11°ERavin de Ratavoux — 43.78°N, 5.45°EVathylakkos — 40.78°N, 22.66°EPikermi — 38.00°N, 23.95°E

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The named rock units Helladotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Helladotherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Helladotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

261 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Helladotherium, 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

22 references

Each of the 33 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. 10 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 Helladotherium

Credit
Karl von Zittel
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itGiraffidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gaudry 1860