Cervoidea

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PecoraPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 37 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 0 Mya.
2,686 occurrences of Cervoidea 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
2,686 occurrencesThese 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
243 formations
- Cromer Forest Bed Formation26
- Ash Hollow Formation · Ogallala Group21
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group21
- Mascall Formation16
- Palm Spring Formation15
- Hsanda Gol Formation14
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The named rock units Cervoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 219 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2,030 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cervoidea and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cervoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,856 taxa- Camelidae43 sites
- Aphelops megalodus30 sites
- Cranioceras unicornis29 sites
- Hypohippus26 sites
- Equus25 sites
- Archaeolaginae24 sites
- Dromomeryx borealis24 sites
- Mylagaulidae24 sites
- Odocoileus24 sites
- Hemiauchenia23 sites
- Tayassuinae23 sites
- Epicyon saevus22 sites
- Epicyon haydeni21 sites
- Equinae21 sites
- Hipparionini20 sites
- Procranioceras skinneri20 sites
- Ticholeptus zygomaticus20 sites
- Aelurodon ferox19 sites
- Gomphotheriidae19 sites
- Platygonus19 sites
- Teleoceras19 sites
- Teleoceras major18 sites
- Teleoceras medicornutum18 sites
- Aepycamelus17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,283 sites for Cervoidea, 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
898 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals65
- I giacimenti Quaternari di vertebrati fossili nell'Italia Nord-Orientale64
- Mittelpleistozane Saugetierfaunen aus Mitteleuropa - der Versuch einer biostratigraphischen Zuordnung62
- Uniformity in variety: Antler morphology and evolution in a predator-free environment43
- From tortoises to elephants: the impact of elephants in the broad spectrum diet at Bolomor Cave (MIS 9–5 Spain)36
- Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R.36
- Horned ruminants of North America34
- The Villafranchian mammalian faunas and biochronology of Greece32
- Pleistocene vertebrate faunas of Hungary30
- Principaux gisements villafranchiens de France: Listes fauniques et biostratigraphie28
- Large mammal fossil occurrences and associated archaeological evidence in Pleistocene contexts of peninsular India and Sri Lanka24
- Mammal fauna with Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus from the lower levels of Ambrona (Soria, Spain)22
Each of the 2,686 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. 886 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 Cervoidea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- FunkMonk
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cervoidea 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPecora through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.