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Table XIII. — Distribution of Giraffidw 



^ Remote and archaic collateral relatives, family Protoceratidae. It is by no means 

 certain that Diomomerpx and other undescribed genera from the North American 

 Miocene provisionally referred to the Cervidae and Brachyodont Bovidse are not related 

 to the GiraffldiE ; but on present evidence the dispersal center of the family appears to 

 be India, and their range confined to Palceogsea. 



