Decennatherium
| Decennatherium Temporal range: Late Miocene (Tortonian)
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| Skull of the male D. rex holotype specimen | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Giraffidae |
| Genus: | † Crusafont, 1952 |
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Decennatherium is an extinct genus of giraffids. The genus contains a total of four species with two species from Spain, D. pachecoi and D. rex, and two species respectively from Iran and Pakistan, D. crusafonti and D. asiaticum.[1] In 2025, Solounias and Danowitz assigned the YGSP 47357, 6392, and 47192, previously referred to Lyrakeryx, to Decennatherium.[2]
Description
A juvenile D. rex specimen from Spain suggests that the ontogenetic development of ossicones in the species was similar to that of the modern giraffe.[3]
References
- ^ a b Rios, Maria; Danowitz, Melinda; Solounias, Nikos (2019). "First identification of Decennatherium Crusafont, 1952 (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Pecora) in the Siwaliks of Pakistan". Geobios. 57: 97–110. Bibcode:2019Geobi..57...97R. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2019.10.007. S2CID 212818436. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
- ^ Solounias, N.; Danowitz, M. (2025). "Siwalik Giraffoidea". In Badgley, C.; Morgan, M.E.; Pilbeam, D. (eds.). At the Foot of the Himalayas: Paleontology and Ecosystem Dynamics of the Siwalik Record. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 361. ISBN 978-1421450278.
- ^ Ríos, M.; Cantero, E.; Martino, R.; Estraviz-López, D.; Crespo, V. D.; Lohmann, P.; Morales, J. (4 August 2024). "Description of newly discovered cranial remains of Decennatherium rex juveniles from Batallones-10 (Late Miocene, Iberian Peninsula)". Historical Biology: 1–8. doi:10.1080/08912963.2024.2376359. ISSN 0891-2963. Retrieved 16 June 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.