Cervalces
| Cervalces Temporal range: Pliocene-Pleistocene
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| The stag-moose, Cervalces scotti | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Subfamily: | Capreolinae |
| Tribe: | Alceini |
| Genus: | †Cervalces Scott, 1885 |
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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]
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- Cervalces
- Alceini
- Prehistoric deer
- Pliocene Artiodactyla
- Pleistocene Artiodactyla
- Pleistocene mammals of North America
- Pliocene first appearances
- Pleistocene genus extinctions
- Cenozoic mammals of North America
- Cenozoic mammals of Europe
- Cenozoic mammals of Asia
- Prehistoric Artiodactyla genera
- Fossil taxa described in 1885
- Prehistoric Artiodactyla stubs