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Cervus canadensis merriami (Arizona elk)
Discussion
Extinct in historical times
Taxonomy
Cervus merriami was named by Nelson (1902). Its type specimen is USNM (Mammals) 111639, a skull (Skin and skull), and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Cervus elaphus merriami by Anderson and Barlow (1978); it was recombined as Cervus canadensis merriami by VerCauteren et al. (2025).
It was recombined as Cervus elaphus merriami by Anderson and Barlow (1978); it was recombined as Cervus canadensis merriami by VerCauteren et al. (2025).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. acoronatus, C. ardei, C. astylodon, C. axis, C. belgrandi, C. bovides, C. brevitrabilis, C. bucklandi, C. capreulus, C. dicranius, C. dorothoensis, C. duvauceli, C. duvauceli, C. elaphas, C. elaphoides, C. elephas, C. elsanus, C. fitchii, C. furcatus, C. gunnii, C. ischnoceros, C. kazusensis, C. liriocerus, C. matheroni, C. peloponnesiacus, C. philisi, C. phlisi, C. polignacus, C. punjabicus, C. reichenaui, C. rhenanus, C. solilhacus, C. stehlini, C. taiouanus, C. verticornis, C. warthae, C. yesoensis, C. yunnanensis, C. kauxuesis, C. naorai, C. praeonipponicus, C. dicranios, C. senezensis, C. takaoi, C. grayi, C. katokiyomasai, C. kuhlii, C. timoriensis, C. tricolor, C. yunnanensis, C. greyi, C. paleozoensis, C. taevanus, C. taiouanus
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2010-01-10
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1902 | Cervus merriami Nelson |
| 1936 | Cervus merriami Ayer p. 612 |
| 1978 | Cervus elaphus merriami Anderson and Barlow p. 69 |
| 2025 | Cervus canadensis merriami VerCauteren et al. p. 147 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Cervus canadensis merriami Nelson 1902 [Arizona elk]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, MacFadden et al. 1999, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range: base of the Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 2.58000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Texas) | Cervus merriami (93258) |