†tribe Megacerini Viret 1961 (deer)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae

Parent taxon: Cervinae according to I. A. Vislobokova 2013

See also McKenna and Bell 1997 and Vislobokova 2009

Sister taxa: Arvernoceros, Cervini, Croizetoceros, Eucladoceros, Megaceroides, Megaloceros, Metacervocerus, Muntiacini, Praedama, Praeelaphus, Praesinomegaceros, Torontoceros

Subtaxa: Candiacervus Neomegaloceros Orchonoceros Sinomegaceros

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Greece (30 collections), Japan (4), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Spain (1), Tajikistan (1)

• Pliocene of Tajikistan (1)

Total: 41 collections including 75 occurrences

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