Croizetoceros Heintz 1970 (deer)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae

Parent taxon: Cervinae according to R. Croitor 2014

See also Grubb 2000 and McKenna and Bell 1997

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

Subtaxa: Croizetoceros proramosus Croizetoceros pyrenaicus Croizetoceros ramosus

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of France (6 collections), Germany (1), Italy (1), Spain (2)

• Villafranchian of Greece (3), Italy (1), Slovakia (2)

• MN 16 of France (2), Poland (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Greece (1), Spain (1)

• Pliocene of France (2), Germany (1), Greece (6), Hungary (1), Moldova (2), Poland (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1)

• Turolian of Spain (1)

Total: 38 collections each including a single occurrence

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