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.
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Caprinae |
| Tribe: | Caprini |
| Genus: | †Urmiatherium Rodler, 1889 |
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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]
References
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