Giraffids Temporal range: Miocene - recent
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An okapi in Bristol Zoo, England | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Superfamily: | Giraffoidea |
Family: | Giraffidae Gray, 1821 |
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Giraffids are mammals, in the order of the even-toed ungulates. The family has two living species, the giraffe and the okapi.