Praemegaceros Portis 1920 (deer)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae

Synonyms: Allocaenelaphus Radulesco and Samson 1967, Praerangifer Portis 1920, Psecupsoceros Radulesco and Samson 1967, Tamanalces Vereshchagin 1957

Parent taxon: Cervidae according to D. Zoboli and G. L. Pillola 2017

See also Carroll 1988, Croitor 2006, Grubb 2000 and Vislobokova 2009

Sister taxa: Agalmaceros, Alcinae, Anoglochis, Antifer, 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, Procervulus, Pseudaxis, Pudu, Sangamona, Sangamona fugitiva, Surameryx, Surameryx acrensis, Telemetacarpalia

Subtaxa: Praemegaceros (Nesoleipoceros) Praemegaceros (Orthogonoceros) Praemegaceros (Praemegaceros)

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of France (8 collections), Georgia (1), Germany (2), Greece (14), Israel (2), Italy (11), Romania (5), Spain (2), Syria (1), Tajikistan (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)

Total: 48 collections including 50 occurrences

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