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Oreonagor is an extinct genus of bovid that lived in North Africa during the Pliocene. It is known from a single species, O. tournoueri.
Oreonagor Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Alcelaphinae |
Genus: | †Oreonagor Arambourg, 1979 |
Type species | |
Oreonagor tournoueri |
Distribution
editOreonagor tournoueri remains have been found at the Piacenzian site of Ain Boucherit in Algeria.[1]
References
edit- ^ Sahnouni, Mohamed; Van der Made, Jan; Everett, Melanie (June 2011). "Ecological background to Plio-Pleistocene hominin occupation in North Africa: the vertebrate faunas from Ain Boucherit, Ain Hanech and El-Kherba, and paleosol stable-carbon-isotope studies from El-Kherba, Algeria". Quaternary Science Reviews. 30 (11–12): 1303–1317. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.01.002. Retrieved 7 October 2024 – via Elsevier Science Direct.