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Praemegaceros is an extinct genus of deer, known from the Pleistocene and Holocene of Western Eurasia. Praemegaceros is considered to be a genus of "giant deer", with many species having an estimated body mass of around 400 kilograms (880 lb), considerably larger than most living deer.
Cervalces scotti, also known as stag-moose, is an extinct species of large deer that lived in North America during the Late Pleistocene epoch. [1] It is the only known North American member of the genus Cervalces. Its closest living relative is the modern moose (Alces alces).
Pages in category "Prehistoric deer" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alces gallicus;
Skull of Eucladoceros senezensis. Species of Eucladoceros were large-sized deer. European species lie E. dicranios and E. ctenoides are suggested to have reached a body mass of 250–300 kilograms (550–660 lb), [3] while East Asian E. boulei is suggested to have reached body masses of 350 kilograms (770 lb). [2]
Cervavitus probably evolved in forested areas of Eastern Europe and then disperse during the Miocene to Western Europe and East Asia, taking advantage of the moist forests of Eurasia at the time, but the progressive aridity of parts of Asia and Europe since the Pliocene and the beginning of the Pleistocene, as a result of changes like the elevation of the Himalayas, forced these deer to take ...
Cervalces latifrons, the broad-fronted moose, or the giant moose [3] was a giant species of deer that inhabited Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene epoch. It is thought to be the ancestor of the modern moose, as well as the extinct North American Cervalces scotti.
Praesinomegaceros is an extinct genus of deer that lived in Eurasia during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs. Distribution. The earliest species, P. venustus, ...
Cervalces is an extinct deer genus that lived during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. Cervalces gallicus is either classified as a species of the related Libralces, or an ancestral species to other members of Cervalces. It lived in Europe from the Pliocene to the Pleistocene. Cervalces scotti, the stag-moose, lived in Pleistocene North ...