Cervalces

Cervalces Temporal range: Pliocene-Pleistocene
The stag-moose, Cervalces scotti
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Cervidae
Subfamily:	Capreolinae
Tribe:	Alceini
Genus:	† Cervalces Scott, 1885
Species
C. gallicus ? C. carnutorum C. scotti C. latifrons
Synonyms
Alces

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 America. ^[1] Cervalces latifrons , the broad-fronted moose, ^[2] and Cervalces carnutorum were found in Pleistocene Europe and Asia. The genus has been suggested to be paraphyletic and ancestral with respect to Alces , the genus which contains the modern moose, and as such, some authors synonymise Cervalces with Alces. ^[3]

References

1. "Stag Moose (Cervalces scotti)". The Academy of Natural Sciences. Archived from the original on 2007-02-16. Retrieved 2007-03-03.
2. Breda, Marzia (2010). "Cervalces latifrons". Natural History Museum. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
3. Athanassiou, Athanassios (2022), Vlachos, Evangelos (ed.), "The Fossil Record of Continental Fossil Deer (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Cervidae) in Greece" , Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 2, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 205–247, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68442-6_6, ISBN   978-3-030-68441-9 , retrieved 2023-06-14

External links

• Stag Moose Image Gallery