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Praemegaceros

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Cervidae

Order
  
Even-toed ungulate

Class
  
Mammalia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Praemegaceros uploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommons884Praeme

Genus
  
†Praemegaceros Portis, 1920

Similar
  
Eucladoceros, Pseudodama, Candiacervus, Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis, Stephanorhinus

Praemegaceros is an extinct genus of deer. It also contains the subgenera Orthogonoceros and Nesoleipoceros. It has sometimes been synonymised with Megaloceros, however they have been found to have been genetically distinct.

P. obscurus is the earliest known species from the Early Pleistocene of Europe, and had long, crooked antlers. P. verticornis is an Early to Mid-Pleistocene species, closely related to P. obscurus, which lived throughout Southern Europe. Praemegaceros fossils has been discovered in France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Romania, Russia Spain, Syria, and Tajikistan.

P. cazioti survived into the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene, in isolation in Sardinia until human colonisation in 5500 BCE.

References

Praemegaceros Wikipedia


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