''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 an ...

(''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 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 finally confirmed in ...

, 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