Oreonagor
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| Oreonagor Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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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 | |
Oreonagor is an extinct genus of bovid that lived in North Africa during the Pliocene. It is known from a single species, O. tournoueri.
Distribution
[edit]Oreonagor 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.
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