Khersonotherium

Khersonotherium Temporal range: Miocene to Pliocene
Khersonotherium restoration
Conservation status
fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Giraffidae
Genus:	Khersonotherium

Khersonotherium ("Kherson" – a city in Ukraine, "therium" - mammal lat.) ia genus of prehistoric giraffes. Its remains were found in Ukraine^[1][2] and in Africa.^[3]

Distribution

Most of Khersonotherium(also called "Chersonotherium") are found in Ukraine. In Russia and Ukraine the fauna in which it lived is called "hipparionova fauna" - the fauna in which Hipparion was a dominant species. The skeleton of Khersonotherium, found in Odessa, a city in Ukraine, is displayed in Kyiv Paleontological Museum.^[2]

Footnotes

1. ^ Krachmal'nova et al.. Putivnyk po Paleontologichnomy Museyu[Ukrainian]. 
2. ^ ^{a b} LIV СЕССИЯ ПАЛЕОНТОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО ОБЩЕСТВА. ГЕОБИОСФЕРНЫЕ СОБЫТИЯ И ИСТОРИЯ ОРГАНИЧЕСКОГО МИРА[Russian]. 
3. ^ W.R.Hamilton. Fossil Giraffes from Miocene of Africa. 

External links

• Site of Kiev Paleontological Museum