Cervinae

The Cervinae or the Old World deer, are a subfamily of deer. Alternatively, they are known as the plesiometacarpal deer, due to having lost the parts of the second and fifth metacarpal bones closest to the foot, distinct from the telemetacarpal deer of the Capreolinae.

Cervinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CervidaePBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Cervidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Cervidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 1098 occurrencesMiocene — about 73 of 1098 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 151 of 1098 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 830 of 1098 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 7 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 23 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 31 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 53 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 89 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 161 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 133 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 536 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

1,098 occurrences of Cervinae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

1,098 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

66 formations

Cromer Forest Bed — 52.46°N, 1.73°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.88°N, 1.44°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.92°N, 1.34°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.42°N, 1.72°EYuanmou — 24.87°N, 100.94°EUnterer Travertin — 50.95°N, 11.38°EUnterer Travertin — 50.98°N, 11.31°EKairubak suite — 38.60°N, 69.11°EKairubak suite — 37.33°N, 68.97°EKairubak suite — 38.35°N, 69.97°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EGerakarou — 40.68°N, 23.15°EGerakarou — 40.52°N, 23.44°EKuruksai suite — 38.31°N, 69.67°EPlatanochori — 40.57°N, 23.47°EPlatanochori — 40.53°N, 23.37°EKhapry — 47.24°N, 39.71°EBalta Sands — 49.01°N, 27.58°EBalta Sands — 47.97°N, 29.30°EBalta Sands — 48.69°N, 31.00°EBalta Sands — 48.58°N, 28.98°EXiaohe — 25.72°N, 101.87°EKomiya — 35.70°N, 139.37°EPinjor — 32.41°N, 75.61°EPinjor — 30.99°N, 76.68°EDursunlu — 38.28°N, 31.91°ESanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EForest Bed — 52.49°N, 1.53°EForest Bed — 52.85°N, 1.47°EBaza — 37.72°N, 2.47°WBenot Ya'aqov — 33.13°N, 35.62°EOberer Travertin I — 50.97°N, 11.35°EKarbolia — 45.53°N, 28.44°ERed Crag — 51.96°N, 1.35°ENagrota — 32.70°N, 74.85°ETatrot — 30.73°N, 76.78°EGuadix — 37.42°N, 3.17°W

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The named rock units Cervinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 943 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cervinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cervinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,535 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 665 sites for Cervinae, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

351 references

Each of the 1,098 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 339 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cervinae

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Lilly M
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cervinae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goldfuss 1820