Sivatherium - Jaw
Sivatherium - Jaw
3D
Published 2018-10-30T17:30:37+00:00
Sivatherium ("Shiva's beast") is an extinct genus of giraffid that ranged throughout Africa to the Indian Subcontinent. The species Sivatherium giganteum is, by weight, the largest giraffidknown, and also possibly the largest ruminant of all time. The Afro-Asiatic species, S. maurusium, was once placed within the genus "Libytherium".
S. giganteum remains have been recovered from the Himalayan foothills, dating around 1,000,000 BCE. S. maurusium may have gone extinct as recently as 8,000 years ago, as depictions that greatly resemble it are known from ancient rock paintings in the Sahara and Central West India
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This objected is scanned by Fossils in Shropshire
| Date published | 30/10/2018 |
| Title | Sivatherium - Jaw |
| Date | circa 19th century |
| Dimension | 37cm x 16.5cm x 5cm |
| Place | Fossils in Shropshire |
