| 词条 | Prolibytherium |
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| fossil_range = Burdigalian ~{{fossilrange|16.9|15.97}} | image = Prolibytherium magnieri life restoration.jpg | image_caption=Prolibytherium magnieri restoration, with female (left) and male (right) | taxon = Prolibytherium | authority = Arambourg 1961 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{bold species list |{{extinct}}P. fusus|Danowitz et al. 2016 |{{extinct}}P. magnieri|Arambourg 1961 }} | type_species = {{extinct}}Prolibytherium magnieri }}Prolibytherium is an extinct climacoceratid artiodactyl ungulate native to Early Miocene North Africa and Pakistan, from around 16.9 to 15.97 million years ago. Fossils of Prolibytherium were found in the Marada Formation of Libya, Vihowa Formation of Pakistan, and the Moghara Formation of Egypt.[1] DescriptionThe {{convert|1.80|m}} long creature would have superficially resembled an okapi or a deer. Unlike these, however, Prolibytherium displayed dramatic sexual dimorphism, in that the male had a set of large, leaf-shaped ossicones with a width of {{convert|35|cm}}, while the female had a set of slender, horn-like ossicones.[2] The taxonomic status of Prolibytherium remains in flux. At one time, it was described as a relative of Sivatherium (as a precursor to "Libytherium maurusium" (S. maurusium)). Later, it would be regarded as a palaeomerycid, or either as a climacoceratid, or as a basal member of Giraffoidea. With the discovery and study of a female skull in 2010, Prolibytherium is tentatively regarded as a climacoceratid.[2] References{{portal|Paleontology|Neogene|Prehistoric mammals|Prehistory of Africa|Prehistory of Asia}}1. ^{{cite web |url=http://fossilworks.org/?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=42706 |title=Prolibytherium |website=Fossilworks |accessdate=13 June 2014 }} {{Commons category|Prolibytherium}}{{Wikispecies}}{{Taxonbar|from=Q729196}}{{paleo-eventoedungulate-stub}}2. ^1 {{cite journal | first1 = Israel M. | last1 = Sánchez | first2 = Victoria | last2 = Quiralte | first3 = Jorge | last3 = Morales | first4 = Beatriz | last4 = Azanza | first5 = Martin | last5 = Pickford | title = Sexual dimorphism of the frontal appendages of the early Miocene African pecoran Prolibytherium Arambourg, 1961 (Mammalia, Ruminantia) | journal = Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 30 | issue = 4 | date = 2010 | pages = 1306–1310 | doi = 10.1080/02724634.2010.483555 | jstor = 40864406 }} 9 : Climacoceratidae|Prehistoric mammal genera|Mammalian incertae sedis|Miocene mammals of Africa|Fossils of Egypt|Fossils of Libya|Miocene mammals of Asia|Fossils of Pakistan|Fossil taxa described in 1961 |
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