<i>Samotherium</i> Vertebra (IMAGE)

New York Institute of Technology

<i>Samotherium</i> Vertebra

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Fossil third cervical vertebra of Samotherium, an extinct giraffid that lived around 7 million years ago. This species underwent the first stage of elongation, but not the second stage.

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Nikos Solounias

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