Antifer Ameghino 1889 (deer)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1889. Contribución al conocimiento de los mamíferos fósiles de la República Argentina [Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil mammals of the Argentine Republic]. Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la República Argentina en Córdoba 6:xxxii-1027

Parent taxon: Cervidae according to F. Ameghino 1889

See also Carroll 1988 and Hershkovitz 1982

Sister taxa: Agalmaceros, Alcinae, Anoglochis, Bretzia, Capreolinae, Cariacus, Cervalces, Cervavitulus, Cervina, Cervinae, 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: Antifer crassus Antifer niemeyeri Antifer ultra

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Type: Cervus ultra

Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (2 collections), Brazil (2), Chile (4), Uruguay (2)

• Pliocene of Argentina (1)

Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence

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