Dama laevicornis Cope 1896 (fallow deer)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae

Alternative combination: Cariacus laevicornis

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1896. New and Little Known Mammalia from the Port Kennedy Bone Deposit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 48:378-394

Belongs to Dama according to O. P. Hay 1902

See also Cope 1896 and Gidley and Gazin 1938

Sister taxa: Cervus (Dama) somonensis, Dama dama, Dama eurygonos, Dama mesopotamica, Dama roberti

Type specimen: Its type locality is Port Kennedy Cave, which is in an Irvingtonian cave horizon in Pennsylvania

Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution: found only at Port Kennedy Cave

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