Urmiatherium

Urmiatherium; Temporal range: Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Caprinae
Tribe:	Caprini
Genus:	†Urmiatherium; Rodler, 1889
Species
	Urmiatherium cheni (Shi & Qiu, 2026) ; 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.

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.

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