Dama roberti Breda and Lister 2013 (fallow deer)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae

Full reference: M. Breda and A. M. Lister. 2013. Dama roberti, a new species of deer from the early Middle Pleistocene of Europe, and the origins of modern fallow deer. Quaternary Science Reviews 69:155-167

Belongs to Dama according to M. Breda and A. M. Lister 2013

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

Type specimen: Norwich Castle Museum 2004.831.12-14, 2004.831.3, and 2004.831.7, a partial skeleton (Associated partial adult male skeleton comprising cranial vault with portion of right and left antlers , right mandible with M1-M3 , and probably associated rig). Its type locality is Pakefield/Kessingland rootlet bed, Suffolk, England, which is in a Pleistocene fluvial horizon in the Cromer Forest Bed Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution: found only at Pakefield/Kessingland rootlet bed, Suffolk, England

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