Samotherium 2015 study found that "Samotherium" had a neck intermediate in length between the giraffe and the okapi, judging from examination of specimens of "S. major" from Greece. Samotherium Samotherium ("beast of Samos") is an extinct genus of Giraffidae from the Miocene and Pliocene of Eurasia and Africa. "Samotherium" had two ossicones on its head, and long legs. The ossicones usually pointed upward, and were curved backwards, with males having larger, more curved ossicones, though, in the Chinese species, "S. sinense", the straight ossicones point laterally, not upwards. The genus is closely related to "Shansitherium". According to biologist Richard Ellis and
Honanotherium on low-lying trees in the savannah environment, although its shorter neck shows that it probably fed on different plants than the extant giraffe. Honanotherium Honanotherium is a genus of extinct giraffid from the late Miocene of Henan Province, China, and East Azerbaijan Province, northwestern Iran. It was closely related to "Bohlinia" and was once thought to be ancestral to the modern giraffe (genus "Giraffa"). The living animal would have resembled a modern giraffe, but, somewhat shorter, and with more massive ossicones. The first part of the generic name, "honano" refers to the Henan () province of China, where the first