Oreonagor

Oreonagor; Temporal range: Pliocene 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:	Alcelaphinae
Genus:	† Oreonagor ; Arambourg, 1979
Type species
	Oreonagor tournoueri;

Last updated May 24, 2025

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

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

References

↑ 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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[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.

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