Harrington's mountain goat

Harrington's mountain goat
Temporal range: 0.030–0.011 Ma
Skull and horn sheaths of O. harringtoni
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Stock, 1936[1]

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.

  1. ^ Stock, Chester (1936). "A New Mountain Goat from the Quaternary of Smith Creek Cave, Nevada". Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 35 (3): 149–153.