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

Urmiatherium
Temporal range: Miocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Tribe: Caprini
Genus: Urmiatherium
Rodler, 1889
Species[1]
  • Urmiatherium intermedium (Schlosser, 1903)
  • Urmiatherium kassandriensis Lazaridis, Kostopoulos, Lyras & Roussiakis, 2017
  • Urmiatherium polaki Rodler, 1889
  • Urmiatherium rugosifrons (Sickenberg, 1932)
Synonyms[1]
  • Parurmiatherium Sickenberg, 1932

Distribution

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U. rugosifrons is known from fossil remains found in Greece[2] and Turkey.[3]

Palaeoecology

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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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  1. ^ a b "Urmiatherium". BioLib.
  2. ^ a b 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.