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Dama (fallow deer)

Mammalia - Cervidae

Taxonomy
Dama was named by Frisch (1775). It is extant.

It was reranked as Antilope (Dama) by Bennett (1833); it was reranked as Cervus (Dama) by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927).

It was assigned to Cervina by Gray (1825); to Antilope by Bennett (1833); to Cervus by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927); to Cervidae by Carroll (1988) and Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi (1995); to Cervinae by Hay (1902) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Cervini by Grubb (2000) and Mackiewicz et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1775Dama Frisch
1825Dama Gray p. 342
1833Antilope (Dama) Bennett
1902Dama Hay p. 684
1927Cervus (Dama) Boule and De Villeneuve p. 39
1988Dama Carroll
1995Dama Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi p. 251
2000Dama Grubb p. 302
2008Dama Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 974 figs. Fig. 5
2022Dama Mackiewicz et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Ruminantiamorpha
—Ruminantia(Scopoli 1777)
—Pecora()
familyCervidae
—Plesiometacarpalia
tribeCerviniGoldfuss 1820
genusDamaFrisch 1775

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.

G. Dama Frisch 1775 [fallow deer]
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†Cervus (Dama) somonensis Cuvier 1800
Dama dama Linnaeus 1758 [fallow deer]
†Dama eurygonos Azzaroli 1947
†Dama laevicornis Cope 1896
Dama mesopotamica Brooke 1875 [Persian fallow deer]
†Dama roberti Breda and Lister 2013
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: grazerf
Diet 2: browserf
Reproduction: viviparousf
Created: 2005-06-08 10:11:09
Modified: 2005-09-22 12:03:17
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Villanyian to the top of the Holocene or 3.20000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.588 Ma

Collections (85 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pliocene - Pleistocene5.333 - 0.0117Spain (Granada) Dama sp. (40986)
Villanyian3.2 - 2.588Spain (Castellon) Dama nesti (34929)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Germany (Thüringen) Dama dama (43020 45085)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Greece (Mygdonia) Dama sp. (200084)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Italy (Tuscany) Dama sp. (51778)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Spain (Castilla-Leon) Dama dama (34916)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Turkey Dama sp. (39314)
Early/Lower Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Italy (Sicily) Dama carburangelensis (94328)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Israel Dama mesopotamica (39251 39252 42865)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Greece (Chalkidiki) Dama dama (183123)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Malta Cervus dama (190860)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Spain (Segovia) Dama clactoniana (36517)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Spain (Castilla-Leon) Dama sp. (34872)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117France Dama sp. (34459)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Italy (Puglia) Dama dama (44091)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Italy Dama clactoniana (96722)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Pennsylvania) Cariacus laevicornis (20479)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Turkey Dama sp. (43008)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Spain (Valencia) Dama sp. (221420 221421 221422 221424 221425 221426)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Italy (Vicenza) Dama dama (43697)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz) Dama sp. (50049)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom (Norfolk) Dama dama (49816)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Italy (Trieste) Dama dama (43701) Dama sp. (40808 43700) Dama sp., Dama dama (43704)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Greece Dama sp. (187637 194477)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Spain (Soria) Dama dama (73759) Dama sp., Dama dama (73757 73758 73760 73761)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Israel Dama mesopotamica (230988)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom (Suffolk) Dama dama, Dama roberti (49814)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Germany (Baden-Wuerttemberg) Dama sp. (50259)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Italy (Verona) Cervus dama (43654) Dama dama (43655) Dama dama, Dama somonensis (43664) Dama somonensis (43645 43649 43653)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Spain Dama dama (34926)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Italy (Capri Island) Dama sp. (43016)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Italy (Lazio Region) Dama dama (36134)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Italy Dama clactoniana (38314)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Italy (Roma) Dama sp. (44090)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Italy (Molise) Dama sp. (44092)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Netherlands Dama dama (109704)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129France (Pas de Calais) Cervus somonensis (49087)
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117Monaco Cervus somonensis (191730)
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117Greece (Lakonia) Dama dama (32059 32062 32082 32086)
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117Italy (Verona) Dama dama (43657)
Middle Pleistocene - Quaternary0.774 - 0.0Israel Dama mesopotamica (13490)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Netherlands Dama dama (109703)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Italy (Tuscany) Dama sp. (200295)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117United Kingdom (England) Cervus dama (93828)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Greece (Ioannina) Dama dama (208564 208565)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Israel (Mount Carmel) Dama mesopotamica (11803)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Greece (Dodecanese) Dama dama (182809)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Portugal Dama sp. (197768)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Spain (Valencia) Dama sp. (205285 221412 221413 221414 221415 221416)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Greece (Peloponnesus) Dama dama (184245 208563)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Israel Dama sp. (225667)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Greece Dama dama (203847)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene0.129 - 0.0Greece (Peloponnesus) Dama dama (184243)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Bulgaria Cervus dama (232847)