Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Parent taxon: Cervidae according to E. Cregut-Bonnoure and E. Tsoukala 2017
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008 and Grubb 2000
Sister taxa: Agalmaceros, Alcinae, Anoglochis, Antifer, Bretzia, Cariacus, Cervalces, Cervavitulus, Cervina, Cervinae, Cervodama, Cervulinae, Cervulus, Cervus guineensis, Charitoceros, Eocoileus, Epieuryceros, Euctenoceros, Eumeryx, Furcifer, Lucentia, Megaceroides, Metacervulus, Moschina, Nemomeryx, Palaeoplatyceros, Paraceros, Paracervulus, Paradicrocerus, Plesiometacarpalia, Pliocervinae, Praemegaceros, Procervulus, Pseudaxis, Pudu, Sangamona, Sangamona fugitiva, Surameryx, Surameryx acrensis, Telemetacarpalia
Subtaxa: Alceini Procapreolus
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (1 collection), Italy (1)
• Pliocene of China (1), France (2), Georgia (2), Greece (1), Moldova (5), Poland (2), Romania (1), Ukraine (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (1)
• Miocene of China (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Moldova (1), Ukraine (2)
Total: 24 collections each including a single occurrence