Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 45017

Synonym: Cervus merriami Nelson 1902 (taxon 161402)

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Belongs to Cervus according to I. Agnarsson and L. J. May-Collado 2008

Sister taxa: Cervus (Cervequus), Cervus (Cervus), Cervus (Deperetia), Cervus (Furcifer), Cervus (Leptocervus), Cervus (Metacervocerus), Cervus (Panolia), Cervus (Sika), Cervus aguangae, Cervus albirostris, Cervus alfredi, Cervus anocerus, Cervus bertholdi, Cervus brevitrabalis, Cervus canadensis, Cervus cornaliai, Cervus costrizensis, Cervus curtocerus, Cervus dicranocerus, Cervus duvaucelii, Cervus eldii, Cervus feae, Cervus fortis, Cervus fortisi, Cervus gouazoubira, Cervus latus, Cervus lucasi, Cervus lydekkeri, Cervus mariannus, Cervus mediterraneus, Cervus nanus, Cervus nippon, Cervus obscurus, Cervus partschii, Cervus porcinus, Cervus pyrenaicus, Cervus ruscinensis, Cervus schomburgki, Cervus sedgwickii, Cervus timorensis, Cervus trigonocerus, Cervus unicolor, Rusa equina, Elaphurus davidianus

Ecology: scansorial insectivore