Urmiatherium

Urmiatherium is an extinct genus of caprine bovid that inhabited Eurasia during the Neogene period.

Distribution

U. rugosifrons is known from fossil remains found in Greece and Turkey.

Palaeoecology

U. rugosifrons is believed to have been a grazer, and is the only grazing herbivore found in the Late Miocene ruminant fossil assemblage of Samos.