''Oreamnos'' is a genus of North American caprines. The

mountain goat The mountain goat (''Oreamnos americanus''), also known as the Rocky Mountain goat, is a hoofed mammal endemic to mountainous areas of western North America. A subalpine to alpine species, it is a sure-footed climber commonly seen on cliffs and ...

(''Oreamnos americanus'') is the only living species. Until the end of the

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological Epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fina ...

, another species, '' Oreamnos harringtoni'', was distributed to the south of the recent form.Mead, JI, Agenbroad, LD, Phillips, AMIII, Middeleton, LT. (1987). ''Extinct mountain goat (''Oreamnos harringtoni'' ) in southeastern Utah.'' QUATERN. END. RES. Vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 323-331.

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Caprids Mammal genera Mammal genera with one living species Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque {{goat-stub