Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Parent taxon: Cervidae according to I. A. Vislobokova 2009
See also Grubb 2000, Hay 1902, Kurten and Anderson 1980, McKenna and Bell 1997, Pitra et al. 2004 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxa: Agalmaceros, Alcinae, Anoglochis, Antifer, Bretzia, Capreolinae, Cariacus, Cervalces, Cervavitulus, Cervina, Cervodama, Cervulinae, Cervulus, Cervus guineensis, Charitoceros, Eocoileus, Epieuryceros, Euctenoceros, Eumeryx, Furcifer, Lucentia, Megaceroides, Metacervulus, Moschina, Nemomeryx, Palaeoplatyceros, Paraceros, Paracervulus, Paradicrocerus, Plesiometacarpalia, Pliocervinae, Praemegaceros, Procervulus, Pseudaxis, Pudu, Sangamona, Sangamona fugitiva, Surameryx, Surameryx acrensis, Telemetacarpalia
Subtaxa: Candiacervus Megacerini Metacervocerus Praeelaphus Praesinomegaceros Torontoceros
Type: Cervus
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Ontario collection), China (7), Croatia (2), the Czech Republic (1), France (12), Georgia (1), Germany (15), Greece (39), Hungary (4), Italy (15), Japan (5), Mongolia (1), the Netherlands (4), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (16), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (12)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Greece (2), Italy (2), Pakistan (1), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1)
• Pliocene of China (1), France (2), Greece (4), Hungary (7), India (1), Italy (2), Moldova (1), Poland (1), Romania (10), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (3), Spain (3), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1), Spain (1)
Total: 192 collections including 246 occurrences