Candiacervus cretensis Simonelli, 1908

Cretan dwarf megacerine deer

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Megaloceros cretensis Simonelli, 1908

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

Crete, Greece

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Simonelli, V. (1908). Mammiferi quaternari dell’isola di Candia II. Memorie, Accademia delle Scienze (Instituto di Bologna Classe di Scienze Fisische, (Serie 6) 5: 103-111.

Other references:

Alcover, Josep Antoni et al. (1998). Mammal Species of the World: Additional Data on Insular Mammals. American Museum Novitates 3248, 29 pp., 1 table.

Besiou, Eva, Choupa, Maria Nefeli, Lyras, George, and van der Geer, Alexandra. (2022). Body mass divergence in sympatric deer species of Pleistocene Crete (Greece). Palaeontologia Electronica 25(2): a23. https://doi.org/10.26879/1221

De Vos, J. (1979). The endemic Pleistocene deer of Crete. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Series B), 82: 59-90.

Caloia, Lucia and Palombo, Mari Rita. (1995). Functional aspects and ecologicalimplications in Pleistocene endemic cervids of Sardinia, Sicily and Crete. Geobios 28(2): 247-258. [Abstract]

Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). In the shadow of the megafauna: prehistoric mammal and bird extinctions across the Holocene, pp. 17-39. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. New York: Oxford University Press.

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