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Extinct genus of mammals

Urmiatherium
Temporal range: Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Tribe: Caprini
Genus: †Urmiatherium
Rodler, 1889
Species
  • Urmiatherium intermedium (Schlosser, 1903)
  • Urmiatherium kassandriensis Lazaridis, Kostopoulos, Lyras & Roussiakis, 2017
  • Urmiatherium polaki Rodler, 1889
  • Urmiatherium rugosifrons (Sickenberg, 1932)
Synonyms
  • Parurmiatherium Sickenberg, 1932

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

Distribution

U. rugosifrons is known from fossil remains found in Greece and Turkey.

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.

References

  1. ^ "Urmiatherium". BioLib.
  2. ^ Solounias, Nikos; Dawson-Saunders, Beth (June 1988). "Dietary adaptations and paleoecology of the Late Miocene ruminants from Pikermi and Samos in Greece". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 65 (3–4): 149–172. Bibcode:1988PPP....65..149S. doi:10.1016/0031-0182(88)90021-1. Retrieved 14 September 2024 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
  3. Kaya, Tanju T.; Mayda, Serdar; Kostopoulos, Dimitris S.; Alcicek, Mehmet Cihat; Merceron, Gildas; Tan, Aytekin; Karakutuk, Seval; Giesler, Amanda K.; Scott, Robert S. (January–February 2012). "Şerefköy-2, a new Late Miocene mammal locality from the Yatağan Formation, Muğla, SW Turkey". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 11 (1): 5–12. Bibcode:2012CRPal..11....5K. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2011.09.001. Retrieved 3 November 2024 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
Taxon identifiers
Urmiatherium


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