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- Megaloceros abstract "Megaloceros (from Greek: μεγαλος, megalos + κερας, keras, literally "Great Horn"; see also Lister [1987]) is an extinct genus of deer whose members lived throughout Eurasia from the late Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene and were important herbivores during the Ice Ages. The largest species, Megaloceros giganteus, vernacularly known as the "Irish Elk" or "Giant elk", is also the best known.Most members of the genus were extremely large animals that favoured meadows or open woodlands, with most species averaging slightly below 2 metres at the withers. Many of the Mediterranean species, on the other hand, were textbook examples of insular dwarfism, such as the Sardinian (and Corsican; the two were joined for much of the Pleistocene) M. cazioti, which was barely 1 metre tall. The various species of the Cretan genus Candiacervus – the smallest of which, C. rhopalophorus was just 65 cm high at the shoulder – are sometimes included in Megaloceros as a subgenus.As the name "Irish Elk" implies, the larger species were somewhat similar in general habitus to the European Elk (Moose) and the American Elk. However, this has by now been shown to be a consequence of their increased size. The actual relationships are with the fallow deer genus Dama, and the genus was part of a Late Neogene Eurasian radiation of fallow deer relatives of which today only 2 taxa remain.(Lister et al. 2005, Hughes et al. 2006)While most studies place all species in Megaloceros, sometimes the genus is considered more restricted in scope. In the most extreme case, it might be limited to M. antecedens and M. giganteus, the others being separated in Praemegaceros (European lineage) and Sinomegaceros (East Asian lineage). While the latter is probably valid as a subgenus, the former taxon requires more research as to its relationship with Megaloceros sensu stricto and Candiacervus in particular.".
- Megaloceros class Mammal.
- Megaloceros family Deer.
- Megaloceros kingdom Animal.
- Megaloceros order Even-toed_ungulate.
- Megaloceros phylum Chordate.
- Megaloceros synonym "Megaceroides".
- Megaloceros synonym "Megaceros".
- Megaloceros synonym "Orthogonoceros".
- Megaloceros synonym "Praemegaceros".
- Megaloceros synonym "Sinomegaceros".
- Megaloceros synonym "and see text".
- Megaloceros thumbnail Megaloceros_Species.jpg?width=300.
- Megaloceros wikiPageExternalLink Hughes.2006.MPE.pdf.
- Megaloceros wikiPageExternalLink nature04134.html.
- Megaloceros wikiPageExternalLink Supplementary_Data.doc.
- Megaloceros wikiPageExternalLink Supplementary_Data.doc.
- Megaloceros wikiPageExternalLink Supplementary_Data.doc.
- Megaloceros wikiPageExternalLink Lister_Nat_05_Megaloceros.pdf.
- Megaloceros wikiPageID "803831".
- Megaloceros wikiPageLength "6890".
- Megaloceros wikiPageOutDegree "61".
- Megaloceros wikiPageRevisionID "681044833".
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Artiodactyla.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Candiacervus.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Caribou.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mammal_genera.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Category:Megafauna_of_Eurasia.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Category:Neogene_Megafauna_of_Eurasia.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Category:Piacenzian_first_appearances.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pleistocene_even-toed_ungulates.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pleistocene_extinctions.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pliocene_even-toed_ungulates.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Category:Prehistoric_deer.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Cervidae.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink China.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Chordata.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Chordate.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Chronospecies.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Corsica.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Crete.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Dama_(deer).
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Deer.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Elk.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Eurasia.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Even-toed_ungulate.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Extinct.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Extinction.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Fallow_deer.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink France.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Genus.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Germany.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Great_Britain.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Herbivore.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Ice_Age.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Ice_age.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Insular_dwarfism.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Ireland.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Irish_Elk.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Irish_elk.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Japan.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Leaf_shape.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Loess.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Mammal.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Mediterranean.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Mediterranean_Sea.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Moose.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Morphology_(biology).
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Nature_(journal).
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Neogene.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Paleosubspecies.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Palmate.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Pleistocene.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Pliocene.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Sainte_Savine.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Sardinia.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Shaanxi.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Species.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Subgenus.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Type_species.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink Withers.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLink File:Irish_Elk.jpg.
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLinkText "Megacerines".
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLinkText "Megaloceros".
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLinkText "Orchonoceros".
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLinkText "Praemegaceros cazioti".
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLinkText "Praemegaceros".
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLinkText "Praesinomegaceros".
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLinkText "Sinomegaceros".
- Megaloceros wikiPageWikiLinkText "megaloceros".
- Megaloceros classis "Mammalia".
- Megaloceros familia Cervidae.
- Megaloceros familia Deer.
- Megaloceros fossilRange "Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene,".
- Megaloceros genus "Megaloceros".
- Megaloceros hasPhotoCollection Megaloceros.
- Megaloceros ordo Artiodactyla.
- Megaloceros ordo Even-toed_ungulate.
- Megaloceros phylum Chordata.