- Late
Pleistocene M.
giganteus should be
divided into
several subspecies including M.
giganteus ruffii and M.
giganteus giganteus,
based primarily on differences...
- Holocene. The type and only
undisputed member of the genus,
Megaloceros giganteus,
vernacularly known as the "Irish elk" or "giant deer", is also the best...
-
Richard Lydekker as
Cervus algericus in 1890 from a
maxilla with
teeth found near
Hammam Maskhoutine in Algeria. The
species Cervus pachygenys was erected...
- Look up elk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The elk (
Cervus canadensis) is a
large antlered mammal within the deer family. Elk may also
refer to: Eurasian...
-
giganteus". Von
Koenigswald reclassified "D.
giganteus" in 1950 into its own genus, Indopithecus, but this was
changed again in 1979 to "G.
giganteus"...
- were
named by
pioneering Chinese paleontologist C. C.
Young as
species of
Cervus in 1932 for
material from Zhoukoudian. In a
review of the
paper the subsequent...
-
regarded as
members of the
genus Cervus.
Rucervus was
originally proposed by
Hodgson as a
subgenus of the
genus Cervus. The
original definition of Rucervus...
- Johnson, who
retained the
specimen in his collection,
named it
Cervus latifrons,
Cervus being the only
genus of deer
known at that time. The
specific name...
- in
North America as the grizzly), red deer (
Cervus elaphus) in
Europe and the
closely related elk (
Cervus canadensis) in far
eastern Siberia, American...
-
elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus),
Irish elk (Megaloceros
giganteus),
fallow deer, red deer (
Cervus elaphus),
aurochs (Bos primigenius), Merck's rhinoceros...
