Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Parent taxon: Cervidae according to A. Hassanin and E. J. P. Douzery 2003
Sister taxa: Agalmaceros, Alcinae, Anoglochis, Bretzia, Capreolinae, Cervalces, Cervavitulus, Cervina, Cervinae, Cervodama, Cervulinae, Cervus guineensis, Charitoceros, Eocoileus, Euctenoceros, Eumeryx, Furcifer, Lucentia, Metacervulus, Moschina, Nemomeryx, Palaeoplatyceros, Paracervulus, Plesiometacarpalia, Pliocervinae, Praemegaceros, Pseudaxis, Sangamona, Sangamona fugitiva, Surameryx, Surameryx acrensis
Subtaxa: Hydropotini Odocoileini
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (25 collections), Bolivia (4), Brazil (29), Canada (11: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan), Chile (4), China (5), Colombia (2), Ecuador (5), Guatemala (5), Honduras (1), Mexico (12), Nicaragua (1), Panama (2), Paraguay (2), Peru (7), United States (221: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia), Uruguay (5), Venezuela (2)
• Blancan of El Salvador (1), Mexico (2), United States (33: Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Idaho)
• Pliocene of Argentina (1), Mexico (1)
Total: 382 collections including 417 occurrences