Harrington's mountain goat

Harrington's mountain goat
Temporal range:
Skull and horn sheaths of O. harringtoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Genus: Oreamnos
Species:
†O. harringtoni
Binomial name
†Oreamnos harringtoni
Stock, 1936

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 BC.

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