Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Cervoidea according to I. M. Sánchez et al. 2015
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Bonaparte 1850, Carroll 1988, Cook 1934, Cope 1889, Cregut-Bonnoure and Tsoukala 2017, Eshelman et al. 2018, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gonzalez et al. 2014, Gray 1821, Gregory 1910, Hassanin and Douzery 2003, Hay 1902, Jaekel 1911, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Leidy 1873, Matthew 1908, Nowak 1991, Sach and Heizmann 2001, Shoshani et al. 1989, Spaulding et al. 2009, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Vislobokova 2013 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxa: Amphiprox, Boreameryx, Dromomerycidae, Lagomerycidae
Subtaxa: 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 Telemetacarpalia
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser