Urmiatherium

Extinct genus of mammals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Urmiatherium is an extinct genus of caprine bovid that inhabited Eurasia during the Neogene period.

Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Family:Bovidae
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Urmiatherium
Temporal range: Miocene
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Tribe: Caprini
Genus: †Urmiatherium
Rodler, 1889
Species[1]
  • Urmiatherium intermedium (Schlosser, 1903)
  • Urmiatherium kassandriensis Lazaridis, Kostopoulos, Lyras & Roussiakis, 2017
  • Urmiatherium polaki Rodler, 1889
  • Urmiatherium rugosifrons (Sickenberg, 1932)
Synonyms[1]
  • Parurmiatherium Sickenberg, 1932
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Distribution

U. rugosifrons is known from fossil remains found in Greece[2] and Turkey.[3]

Palaeoecology

U. rugosifrons is believed to have been a grazer, and is the only grazing herbivore found in the Late Miocene ruminant fossil assemblage of Samos.[2]

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