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: Pliocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Alcelaphinae
Genus: Oreonagor
Arambourg, 1979
Type species
Oreonagor tournoueri

Distribution

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Oreonagor tournoueri remains have been found at the Piacenzian site of Ain Boucherit in Algeria.[1]

References

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  1. ^ 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.