Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Parent taxon: Cervinae according to N. S. Heckeberg 2020
See also Grubb 2000, Hassanin and Douzery 2003 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Arvernoceros, Candiacervus, Croizetoceros, Eucladoceros, Megacerini, Megaloceros, Metacervocerus, Muntiacini, Praedama, Praeelaphus, Praesinomegaceros, Torontoceros
Subtaxa: Axis Bohlinella Cervus Dama Elaphurus Panolia Rucervus Rusa
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bolivia (1), Brazil (4), Bulgaria (1), Canada (6: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon), China (31), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (24), Georgia (1), Germany (21), Greece (30), Hungary (10), India (16), Indonesia (6), Israel (8), Italy (47), Japan (9), Kyrgyzstan (2), Laos (1), Malaysia (2), Malta (1), Mexico (1), Monaco (7), the Netherlands (7), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (1), the Philippines (1), Portugal (4), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (1), Spain (33), Sri Lanka (1), Taiwan (5), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (6), Turkey (4), Turkmenistan (1), the United Kingdom (18), United States (56: 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)
• Blancan of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Bulgaria (1), China (1), France (3), Greece (1), India (1), Italy (2), Nepal (1), Pakistan (1), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (1)
• Pliocene of China (2), France (1), Georgia (1), Greece (1), Hungary (4), India (3), Italy (3), Japan (2), Moldova (2), the Netherlands (1), Poland (1), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (2), Tajikistan (2), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (6)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Pakistan (1)
• Neogene of Italy (1), Taiwan (8)
• Miocene of China (2), Moldova (2)
Total: 452 collections including 610 occurrences