Honanotherium

Taxobox
name = "Honanotherium"
fossil_range = Late Miocene

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image_caption = "Honanotherium schlosseri" (right) and "Shansitherium"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
familia = Giraffidae
subfamilia = Giraffinae
genus = "Honanotherium"
species ="H. schlosseri"
binomial = "Honanotherium schlosseri"
binomial_authority = (Bohlin, 1927)

"Honanotherium schlosseri" was a giraffid ancestral to the modern giraffe (genus "Giraffa") from the late Miocene of Hunan Province, China. It would have resembled a modern giraffe, but, somewhat shorter.

Etymology

The first part of the generic name, "honano" refers to the Hunan (zh-cp |c=湖南 |p=Húnán) province of China, where the first specimens were recovered. the second part, "therium", comes from the Greek, "θηρίον" which means "beast." The species name, "schlosseri," honors M. Schlosser, a German paleontologist who specialized in prehistoric giraffes.