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Harrington's mountain goat
Extinct species of mammal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harrington's mountain goat (Oreamnos harringtoni) was a species of caprine that resided in the Southwest of North America during the Pleistocene epoch. A relative of the modern mountain goat, which is the only existing species in the genus Oreamnos, O. harringtoni became extinct around 11,000 B.C.
Quick Facts Scientific classification, Binomial name ...
Harrington's mountain goat | |
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Skull and horn sheaths of O. harringtoni | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Caprinae |
Tribe: | Caprini |
Genus: | Oreamnos |
Species: | †O. harringtoni |
Binomial name | |
†Oreamnos harringtoni | |
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