Megaloceros cazioti Depéret, 1897

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Praemegaceros cazioti Depéret, 1897; Nesoleipoceros cazioti Depéret, 1897

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

Corsica (France) and Sardinia (Italy)

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Depéret, C. (1897). Etude de quelques gisements nouveaux de vertébrés pléistocènes de l’île de Corse. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 44: 113-116.

Other references:

Abbazzi, L. et al. (2004). Plio-Pleistocene Fossil Vertebrates of Monte Tuttavista (Orosei, E. Sardinia, Italy), An overview. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 110(3): 603-628.

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

Benzi V, Abbazzi L, Bartolomei P, Esposito M, Fassò C, Fonzo O, Giampieri R, Murgia F, and Reyss J-L (2007) Radiocarbon and U-series dating of the endemic deer Praemegaceros cazioti (Depéret) from “Grotta Juntu”, Sardinia. Journal of Archaeological Science 34, 790-794.

Burness, G.P., Diamond, J. & Flannery, T. 2001 Dinosaurs, dragons, and dwarfs: the evolution of maximal body size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 98, 14518-14523.

Cordy, J. M. and A. Ozer. (1972). Découverte d’un crâne de cervidé mégacérin (Nesoleipoceros cazioti) dans le Quatenaire de la Sardaigne septentrionale. Annales de la Société géologique de Belgique 95: 425-449.

Croitor, Roman. (2018). Plio-pleistocene deer of western paleartic: Taxonomy, Systematics, Phylogeny. Chişinău: Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. 140 pp.

Croitor, Roman et al. (2006). Origin and evolution of the late pleistocene island deer Praemegaceros (Nesoleipoceros) cazioti (Depéret) from Corsica and Sardinia). Bull. Mus. Anthropol. préhist. Monaco 46: 35-68.

Gliozzi, E., Malatesta, A. and Palombo, M. R. (1984). Upper Pleistocene small mammal associations in the Is Oreris area (Iglesiente, SW Sardegna). Geologica Romana 23: 121-129. [a record of M. cazioti from south-west Sardinia]

Klein Hofmeijer, G. (1997). Late Pleistocene deer fossils from Corbeddu Cave. British Archaeological Reports International Series 663: 432-663.

Lister, A.M., Edwards, C.J., Nock, D.A.W., Bunce, M., van Pijlen, I.A., Bradley, D.G., Thomas, M.G. & Barnes, I. 2005 The phylogenetic position of the 'giant deer' Megaloceros giganteus. Nature 438, 850-853.

Palombo, Maria Rita. (2005). Food habits of "Praemegaceros" cazioti (Depéret, 1897) from Dragonara Cave (NW Sardinia, Italy) inferred from cranial morphology and dental wear. In ALCOVER, JA & BOVER, P. (eds.): Proceedings of the International Symposium "Insular Vertebrate Evolution: the Palaeontological Approach': Monografies de la Societat d'Història Natural de les Balears 12: 233-244.

Pereira, E. (2000). Présence du Cervidé Megaloceros (Nesoleipoceros) cazioti (DÉPERET, 1897) dans le gisement pléistocène de Corte (Corse). Geodiversitas 22(3): 433-455.

Sondaar, Paul Y., Sanges M, Kotsakis T, Esu D. (1984). First report on a paleolithic culture in Sardinia. In: Waldren H, Chapman R, Lewthwaite J, Kennard RC, eds. The Deya conference of prehistory: early settlement in western Mediterranean islands and the peripheral areas. London: British Archaeological Reports, International Series 229: 29-59.

Turvey, Samuel T. (2009a). 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.

Turvey, Samuel T. (2009b). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]

Zoboli, Daniel, Pala, Alexandra et al. (2019). Pleistocene mammals from Sa Cona Cave (Teulada, south-western Sardinia, Italy). Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences 11. doi: doi: 10.3304/JMES.2019.002

Zoboli, Daniel and Pillola, Gian Luigi. (2017). Upper Pleistocene mammal assemblage from Su Concali Quarry (Samatzai, Southern Sardinia, Italy). Riv. It. Paleontol. Strat. 123(2): 243-254.

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