Urmiatherium

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

Urmiatherium Temporal range: Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
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

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

Palaeoecology

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]