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    Climacoceratidae is a family of superficially deer-like artiodactyl ungulates which lived in the Miocene epoch in Africa. They are close to the ancestry...
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    families Climacoceratidae, Prolibytheriidae, and Giraffidae. The only extant members in the superfamily are the giraffes and okapi. The Climacoceratidae are...
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    okapi, and extinct relatives belong) and the entirely extinct family Climacoceratidae. It had been argued that the so-called ossicones known from fossils...
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    Superfamily Giraffoidea Family Giraffidae (giraffes and okapi) Family †Climacoceratidae Pecorans share characteristics with other artiodactyls, including a...
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    (Palaeomerycidae) and Giraffoidea (Giraffidae, Prolibytheriidae and Climacoceratidae), of which the giraffe and okapi of the Giraffidae are the only extant...
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    these taxa include Gelocidae, Palaeomerycidae, Prolibytheridae, and Climacoceratidae. It is thought that the palaeomerycids, prolibytherids, climacoceratids...
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    †Dromomerycidae Family Antilocapridae: pronghorn (one species) Family †Climacoceratidae Family Giraffidae: okapi and four species of giraffe (five species...
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    Climacoceras (category Climacoceratidae)
    was formerly placed within the Giraffidae, but is now placed in the Climacoceratidae, a sister group within the superfamily Giraffoidea. Fossils of the...
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    †Palaeomerycidae Family †Dromomerycidae Family †Hoplitomerycidae Family †Climacoceratidae Family Giraffidae: giraffe and okapi, 2 living species in 2 genera...
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    on the skull roof that giraffomorphs (Giraffidae, Palaeomerycidae, Climacoceratidae) have for ossicone features. The similar resemblances of the two families...
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