Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Synonyms: Proboselaphus Matsumoto 1915, Przewalskium Flerov 1930
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Parent taxon: Cervini according to A. Hassanin and E. J. P. Douzery 2003
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Albright et al. 2019, Ameghino 1902, Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi 1995, Carroll 1988, Gray 1825, Grubb 2000, Hassanin et al. 2012, Hay 1902, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Leidy 1860, Linnaeus 1758, Lydekker 1876, Owen 1848, Pitra et al. 2004, Shoshani et al. 1989, Wilson 1967 and Yuichiro et al. 2021
Sister taxa: Axis, Bohlinella, Croizetoceros, Dama, Elaphurus, Eucladoceros, Panolia, Rucervus, Rusa
Subtaxa: Cervus (Cervequus) Cervus (Cervus) Cervus (Deperetia) Cervus (Leptocervus) Cervus (Sika) Cervus aguangae Cervus albirostris Cervus alfredi Cervus anocerus Cervus aristotelis Cervus australis Cervus bertholdi Cervus bezoarticus Cervus brevitrabalis Cervus canadensis Cervus cornaliai Cervus costrizensis Cervus curtocerus Cervus dicranocerus Cervus elaphus Cervus fortis Cervus fortisi Cervus gouazoubira Cervus latus Cervus lydekkeri Cervus mariannus Cervus mediterraneus Cervus mongoliae Cervus nanus Cervus nestii Cervus nippon Cervus obscurus Cervus partschii Cervus percultus Cervus perolensis Cervus ruscinensis Cervus schomburgki Cervus sedgwickii Cervus simplicidens Cervus sivalensis Cervus timorensis Cervus trigonocerus Cervus triplidens Cervus tuberculatus Cervus unicolor Proboselaphus watasei
Type: Cervus elaphus
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bolivia (1), Brazil (4), Bulgaria (1), Canada (6: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon), China (23), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (24), Georgia (1), Germany (21), Greece (26), Hungary (10), India (2), Indonesia (5), Israel (4), Italy (41), Japan (9), Kyrgyzstan (2), Mexico (1), Monaco (6), the Netherlands (5), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (1), the Philippines (1), Portugal (4), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (1), Spain (33), Taiwan (5), Thailand (3), Turkey (4), Turkmenistan (1), the United Kingdom (18), United States (55: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michiagn, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (2)
• Blancan of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Bulgaria (1), France (3), Greece (1), India (1), Italy (1), Nepal (1), Pakistan (1), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (1)
• Pliocene of Azerbaijan (1), China (2), France (1), Georgia (1), Greece (1), Hungary (3), India (3), Italy (3), Japan (2), Moldova (2), the Netherlands (1), Poland (1), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (6)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Pakistan (1)
• Neogene of Italy (1), Taiwan (8)
• Miocene of China (1), Moldova (2)
Total: 397 collections including 445 occurrences
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