Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Parent taxon: Cervidae according to R. Croitor 2014
See also Grubb 2000, Hay 1902, Kurten and Anderson 1980, McKenna and Bell 1997, Pitra et al. 2004, Vislobokova 2009, Vislobokova 2013 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxa: Agalmaceros, Alcinae, Anoglochis, Bretzia, Capreolinae, Cervalces, Cervavitulus, Cervina, 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: Arvernoceros Cervini Croizetoceros Eucladoceros Megacerini Megaceroides Megaloceros Metacervocerus Muntiacini Praedama Praeelaphus Praesinomegaceros Torontoceros
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bolivia (1), Brazil (4), Bulgaria (1), Canada (7: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon), China (36), Croatia (4), Czechia (2), France (38), Georgia (1), Germany (25), Greece (67), Hungary (11), India (16), Indonesia (7), Israel (8), Italy (64), Japan (12), Kyrgyzstan (2), Laos (1), Malaysia (2), Malta (1), Mexico (1), Monaco (7), Mongolia (1), the Netherlands (8), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (5), Peru (1), the Philippines (1), Portugal (4), Romania (7), the Russian Federation (5), Slovakia (1), Spain (41), Sri Lanka (1), Taiwan (5), Tajikistan (2), Thailand (8), Turkmenistan (1), Türkiye (4), the United Kingdom (25), United States (57: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michiagn, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (2)
• MN 16 of France (2), Italy (2), Poland (1)
• Villafranchian of Greece (7), Hungary (6), Italy (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (3), Spain (1)
• Blancan of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Bulgaria (1), China (1), France (4), Greece (2), India (1), Italy (6), Nepal (1), Pakistan (1), Spain (3), Tajikistan (1), Türkiye (1)
• Pliocene of Armenia (1), Azerbaijan (1), China (4), France (3), Georgia (2), Germany (1), Greece (7), Hungary (2), India (3), Italy (2), Japan (2), Moldova (5), the Netherlands (1), Poland (2), Romania (16), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (4), Tajikistan (2), Turkmenistan (1), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (9)
• Turolian of China (7), Spain (1)
• Baodean of China (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Pakistan (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1), Spain (1)
• Miocene of Austria (2), China (13), France (1), Germany (7), Italy (7), Moldova (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (7), Switzerland (1)
• Neogene of Italy (1), Taiwan (8)
Total: 686 collections including 1082 occurrences