Injanatherium

Injanatherium is an extinct genus of giraffids from the Miocene of Iraq,^[1] Saudi Arabia,^[2] and Pakistan. Species of Injanatherium had at least two pairs of long, wing-like ossicones that emanated laterally above the orbits.

Injanatherium Temporal range: Early to Middle Miocene
I. arabicum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Giraffidae
Genus:	†Injanatherium Heintz, 1981
Type species
Injanatherium hazimi

Species

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 km north of Baghdad.^[1] The ossicones are broad and more massive in comparison to I. arabicum.^[2]

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.^[2]