Cervus elaphus aretinus Azzaroli, 1961

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Cervus aretinus (Azzaroli, 1961)

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

Italy

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Azzaroli, A. (1961). Il nanismo nei cervi insulari. Palaeontographia Italica 26: 1-31.

Other references:

Croitor Roman. (2001). Functional morphology of small-sized deer from the early and middle Pleistocene of Italy: implication to the paleolandscape reconstruction. – In: G. Cavarretta, P. Gioia, M. Mussi & M. R. Palombo (Eds.):La Terra degli Elefanti, Proceedings of the First International Congress, Rome, 97-102.

Croitor, Roman. (2006). Early Pleistocene small-sized deer of Europe. Hellenic Journal of Geosciences 41: 89-117.

Croitor, Roman and Cojocaru, Ion. (2016). An Antlered Skull of a Subfossil Red Deer, Cervus elaphus L., 1758 (Mammalia: Cervidae), from Eastern Romania. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 68(3): 407-414.

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