Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Alternative spelling: Cervus (Metacervocerus)
Synonym: Pseudodama Azzaroli 1992
Parent taxon: Cervinae according to R. Croiter and C. Robinson 2020
See also Croitor 2014 and Grubb 2000
Sister taxa: Arvernoceros, Cervini, Croizetoceros, Eucladoceros, Megacerini, Megaceroides, Megaloceros, Muntiacini, Praedama, Praeelaphus, Praesinomegaceros, Torontoceros
Subtaxa: Metacervocerus pardinensis Metacervocerus philisi Metacervocerus punjabiensis Metacervocerus rhenanus Metacervocerus shansius
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (2 collections), Croatia (2), France (6), Germany (1), Greece (3), Italy (8), Spain (1)
• MN 16 of France (2)
• Villafranchian of Greece (4), Hungary (3), Italy (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (3), Spain (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Italy (2), Tajikistan (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Italy (1), Moldova (1), Poland (1), Romania (6), the Russian Federation (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Spain (1)
Total: 56 collections including 57 occurrences
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