Praemegaceros

Praemegaceros is an extinct genus of deer, known from the Pleistocene and Holocene of Western Eurasia. Praemegaceros is considered to be a genus of "giant deer", with many species having an estimated body mass of around 400 kilograms (880 lb), considerably larger than most living deer.

Praemegaceros

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 645 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 1 of 56 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 55 of 56 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 56 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.1–957 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences774 ka129 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

56 occurrences of Praemegaceros on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

56 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

4 formations

'Ubeidiya — 32.68°N, 35.57°EPlatanochori — 40.53°N, 23.37°EGerakarou — 40.52°N, 23.44°ELatamne — 35.13°N, 36.75°E

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The named rock units Praemegaceros has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Praemegaceros and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Praemegaceros and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

387 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Praemegaceros, and this reads all 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

26 references

Each of the 56 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. 14 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 content2

Picture of Praemegaceros

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itCervidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Portis 1920