Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Synonyms: Alces (Megaceros) Owen 1844, Megaceros Owen 1844
Parent taxon: Cervinae according to R. Croitor 2014
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Allen 1895, Carroll 1988, Gentry 2010, Grubb 2000, Hamilton 1978, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Vislobokova 2009
Sister taxa: Arvernoceros, Candiacervus, Cervini, Croizetoceros, Eucladoceros, Megacerini, Metacervocerus, Muntiacini, Praedama, Praeelaphus, Praesinomegaceros, Torontoceros
Subtaxa: Alces (Megaceros) fossilis Megaceros baotouensis Megaloceros (Megaceroides) Megaloceros algericus Megaloceros giganteus Megaloceros luochuanensis
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (5 collections), the Czech Republic (1), France (5), Germany (9), Greece (6), Hungary (4), Italy (11), Japan (1), the Netherlands (4), North Atlantic (1), Spain (14), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (11)
• Pliocene of Hungary (3)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
Total: 78 collections including 84 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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