Oreonagor Explained

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]

Notes and References

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 . . en . 30 . 11-12 . 1303–1317 . 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.01.002 . 7 October 2024 . Elsevier Science Direct.