Marra Antonella Cinzia
Department MIFT, University of Messina, Viale Stagno D'Alcontres 31, I-98166 Messina, Italy.
Life (Basel). 2025 Jun 4;15(6):911. doi: 10.3390/life15060911.
is a giraffid typical of the Pikermian biome, well documented at Samos and occurring in the late Miocene of the Greco-Iranian paleobioprovince. The species has been also recorded at Cessaniti in Calabria (Southern Italy), in a faunal association including other Pikermian species as well as species of Eurasian and African affinity. In this paper, Calabrian specimens are studied and compared to Samos ones. Morphological and biometrical data fall within the variability of and clearly differ from the co-occurring giraffid, . Two partially complete forelimbs, probably referring to the same individual, permit the first full description of the bones for the species, carpals in particular. The occurrence of in Calabria contributes to the wide discussion on paleobiogeographical assessments of the central Mediterranean in the late Miocene, still not well-understood.
是一种典型的皮克米生物群长颈鹿科动物，在萨摩斯有充分记录，出现在希腊 - 伊朗古生物省的晚中新世。该物种也在意大利南部卡拉布里亚的塞萨尼蒂被记录到，存在于一个动物群组合中，其中包括其他皮克米物种以及具有欧亚和非洲亲缘关系的物种。在本文中，对卡拉布里亚的标本进行了研究并与萨摩斯的标本进行了比较。形态学和生物测量数据落在了[此处原文缺失相关物种名称]的变异范围内，并且明显不同于同时出现的长颈鹿科动物[此处原文缺失相关物种名称]。两个部分完整的前肢，可能属于同一个体，使得能够首次对该物种的[此处原文缺失相关骨骼部位名称]骨骼，特别是腕骨，进行完整描述。[此处原文缺失相关物种名称]在卡拉布里亚的出现，引发了关于晚中新世地中海中部古生物地理评估的广泛讨论，目前这一评估仍未得到很好的理解。
