Kingdom Animalia Family Giraffidae Rank Genus | Class Mammalia Phylum Chordata Order Even-toed ungulate | |
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Similar Even‑toed ungulate, Honanotherium, Giraffokeryx, Bohlinia, Helladotherium | ||
Injanatherium is an extinct genus of giraffid from the Miocene of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. Species of Injanatherium had at least two pairs of long, wing-like ossicones that emanated laterally above the orbits.
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I. hazimi
I. hazimi is the type species, originally described by Heintz, et. al., in 1981 on the basis of a partial skull found in middle Miocene-aged strata of Injana, Iraq, about 140 kilometers north of Baghdad. The ossicones are broad and more massive in comparison to I. arabicum.
I. arabicum
I. arabicum is a second species initially described from a partial skull from early Miocene-aged strata of Saudi Arabia, then, later from material found in similarly aged strata from Pakistan. Its ossicones are more triangular and less massive in comparison to I. hazimi.