Megaloceros dawkinsi (Newton, 1882)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Cervus dawkinsi Newton, 1882 (original combination); Megaceroides dawkinsi (Newton, 1882); Praemegaceros dawkinsi (Newton, 1882)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Britain
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Newton, E. T. (1882). The Vertebrata of the Forest Bed Series of Norfolk and Suffolk. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. England and Wales [1882]: 1-143.
Other references:
Azzaroli, A. (1994). Forest Bed elks and giant deer revisited. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 112(1-2): 119-133. [Abstract]
Croitor, Roman. (2006). Taxonomy and systematics of large-sized deer of the genus Praemegaceros Portis, 1920 (Cervidae, Mammalia). In: R. D. Kahlke, L. C. Maul, P. P. A. Mazza (Eds.): Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Volume I. Courrier Forsch.-Institut Senckenberg 256: 91-116.
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.