Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Parent taxon: Cervidae according to A. Azzaroli 1994
See also Boeskorov 2005, Carroll 1988, Grubb 2000, Hay 1902, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Lister 1993 and Shoshani et al. 1989
Sister taxa: Agalmaceros, Alcinae, Anoglochis, Bretzia, Capreolinae, 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
Subtaxa: Cervalces latifrons Cervalces postremus Cervalces scotti
Type: Cervus americanus
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (2: Alberta, Saskatchewan collections), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (9), Greece (1), the Netherlands (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (16: Alaska, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1)
Total: 34 collections including 36 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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