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Giraffe relatives physically cannot be normal it seems. Hereās some more of my favourites that I couldnāt make into a full post:
ā Xenokeryx amidalae, art by Israel M. SĆ”nchez. Apparently named after PadmĆ© Amidala from Star Wars!
ā Bramatherium perimense, art by WillemSvdMerwe.
ā Climacoceras gentryi, art by WillemSvdMerwe.
Up next is Bramatherium perimense, or āBrahmaās Giraffe.ā This was a large species of giraffe, built similarly to the okapi, but much taller at 2.5 meters (8.24 feet) at the shoulder. They ranged from India to Turkey during the late Miocene to the Pliocene.
Their more famous relative, Sivatherium, has more material to go off of, but I wanted to draw Bramatherium cause I thought the horns looked cooler. š
New art of some amazing extinct Giraffids by Lucas Lima. Samotherium, Sivatherium, and Bramatherium. (via How the giraffe got its long neck)

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I think I finished the giraffes. Iām not sure, I may tweak them a bit yet, but there wonāt be any major changes (unless I get my hands on any good references that will show me where I made mistakes).
Theyāre sort of to scale: sort of, because in most cases itās impossible to find good references, and, as I mentioned earlier, finding good info on sizes is also difficult. The best I could find for Bramatherium was: āsomewhat smaller than Sivatherium.ā, and for Shansitherium, it was āsmaller, with longer, more gracile* skull than Sivatherium.ā And Smatoherium was āabout the size of modern bull mooseā (or elk, if youāre in the UK), but it had ā1m long neckā, so Iām a bit more confident with Samotherium size.
Also to keep in mind: scrappy reference material: For Bohlinia, I literally had a piece of skull and the length of metetarsal, Palaotragus is also based only on a piece of skull, with modified Okapi skeleton for the rest of the body. The same with Giraffokeryx. Though in Palaeotragus case I also had the length of metatarsus to help with scaling. For Giraffokeryx the size is based on the skull length. At least I had a full skeletal reconstruction for Helladotherium, and with metatarsus length Iām quite confident, that one is accurate and to scale.
Shansitherium is based on several photos of its skeleton, but they were all distorted to some degree. I did my best to combine those, and get the proportions right, but thereās a possibility I made mistakes along the way.
Honestly, trying to find good references on extinct synapsids (whether mammalian or not), apart from the few āsuperstarsā is ridiculous. And even in cases of seemingly well known species, the lack of good references can be surprising.
That was supposed to be a fairly quick painting, but... it wasnāt. I also wasnāt sure how may extant giraffes to include here. Because some sources claim thereās only one, others that there are six, and others still that there are eight species. I gotĀ confused about which of those views to follow, so decided to stick with the traditional one species.
Iāll be adding this to me shop at some point, once Iām sure thereās no more tweaks to make.
*huh, my browser doesnāt know that word.
Todd Kabir, Helmsman of the Mobius Species: Bramatherium perimense Todd is from a once royal family, but his country was conquered in the War for Rodinia, and was later ravaged in the Ruin. #Bramatherium #inktoberday26 #inktober #inktober2018 #talesofrodinia #talesofthemobius #rodinia #steampunkfauna #steampunk #megafauna #steampunkmegafauna #patrickweck #bluemaskstudio #indiecomics #illustrator #illustration #instaart https://www.instagram.com/p/BpZthYSjQdv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j8kcl6zhecar
The Brahma beast, Bramatherium (1845)
Phylum : Chordata Class : Mammalia Order : Artiodactyla Family : Giraffidae Subfamily : Sivatheriinae Genus : Bramatherium Ā Species : B. perimense, B. progressus, B. giganteus, B. megacephalum, B. grande, B. magnum, B. suchovi
Pliocene (5 - 2 Ma)
2,5 m tall and 700 kg (size)
Turkey and India (map)
Bramatherium was built very similarly to Sivatherium. Alive, it would have resembled a heavily-built Okapi and had five ossicones, the anterior pair being large and horn-like, and the posterior three being small, and bump-like.
Bramatherium illustration by Mauricio Anton