What is a prolibytherium and what does it look like?

Prolibytherium was a relative of the modern day Giraffe and Okapi, and belongs to a family of extinct deer-like giraffe relatives called "Climacoceratidae." The Climacoceratids were native to Miocene Africa and left no surviving descendants. Prolibytherium was a deer-like animal that had large, flat ossicones (skin-covered, horn structures among giraffes and their relatives). It lived in what is now Eastern Africa. The name "Prolibytherium" refers to an African species of moose-like giraffe, Sivatherium maurusium, which was originally described as "Libytherium." And as such, Prolibytherium was originally thought to be a giraffe, and was mistakenly thought to be the ancestor of "Libytherium."

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