Lyrakeryx
| Lyrakeryx Temporal range: Middle Miocene, | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Giraffidae |
| Subfamily: | †Sivatheriinae (?) |
| Genus: | †Lyrakeryx Ríos & Solounias, 2025 |
| Species: | †L. sherkana |
| Binomial name | |
| †Lyrakeryx sherkana (Ríos & Solounias, 2024) | |
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Lyrakeryx is an extinct genus of giraffid artiodactyl ungulates from the Miocene Chinji Formation of Pakistan. The genus contains a single species, Lyrakeryx sherkana, known from a partial skull and fragmentary ossicones. Lyrakeryx may be a member of the subfamily Sivatheriinae, making it the oldest known record of this clade.