Giraffidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Kalimantsi and Hadjidimovo, Southwestern Bulgaria

摘要: The various late Miocene localities around the villages of Hadjidimovo and Kalimantsi in south-western Bulgaria yielded a rich collection giraffes, including Helladotherium duvernoyi, Bohlinia attica Palaeotragus rouenii. These are same species as at Pikermi, suggesting that there is no great age difference between these localities, but limb-bones both former stouter than Greek site, which perhaps ecological origin. absence Samotherium, known geographically close sites Macedonia might be consequence isolation river basins.