Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Parent taxon: Cervinae according to I. A. Vislobokova 2009
See also McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Candiacervus, Metacervocerus, Praeelaphus, Praesinomegaceros, Torontoceros
Subtaxa: Arvernoceros Megaloceros Neomegaloceros Orchonoceros Praedama Sinomegaceros
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (5 collections), the Czech Republic (1), France (5), Germany (14), Greece (6), Hungary (4), Italy (8), Japan (5), Mongolia (1), the Netherlands (4), North Atlantic (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (15), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (11)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Spain (1), Tajikistan (1)
• Pliocene of France (2), Hungary (3), Poland (1), Romania (2), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
Total: 97 collections including 105 occurrences