Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Full reference: C. Stock. 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
Belongs to Oreamnos according to C. Stock 1936
See also Kurten and Anderson 1980
Sister taxon: Oreamnos americanus
Type specimen: CIT 2028, a partial skull (parts of frontals and two horn-cores). Its type locality is Smith Creek Cave (Pinkish Silt Stratum), which is in a Rancholabrean terrestrial siltstone in Utah.
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: Colorado, New Mexico, Utah collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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