Megaloceros name, which became progressively more widely used, until a taxonomic decision in 1989 by the ICZN confirmed the priority of Megaloceros over...
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Irish elk (redirect from Megaloceros giganteus giganteus)
The Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus), also called the giant deer or Irish deer, is an extinct species of deer in the genus Megaloceros and is one of the...
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muscle build. Megaloceros giganteus or Irish Elk is a species from the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs in Eurasia. Hawkins built four Megaloceros sculptures...
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Lepidogma megaloceros is a species of snout moth in the genus Lepidogma. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1934, and is known from the Democratic...
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taxonomy for Megaloceros, he avoided using the name Megaceroides, and suggested affinities to his proposed "verticornis group" of Megaloceros species, and...
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to fame is its 2+ meter wide antlers, comparable in size to those of Megaloceros. Libralces fossils have been found from France to Tajikistan, with the...
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example: The moose (Alces alces) is an extant species, and the Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus) is an extinct species. In the group of molluscs known as the...
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collectively as members of the tribe Megacerini), with a close relationship to Megaloceros. Many members of the genus are noted for their distinctive palmate antler...
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historically been suggested for the giant antlers of the Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus) that became extinct in Holocene Eurasia (although climate-induced...
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the end of the Pleistocene into historic times, including Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus), aurochs (Bos primigenius), woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta...
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Pleistocene cervid † Eucladoceros was comparable in size to the modern elk. † Megaloceros (Pliocene–Pleistocene) featured the Irish elk (M. giganteus), one of...
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genera like Megaloceros and Sinomegaceros, though other authors have disputed the close relationship between Praemegaceros and Megaloceros, alternatively...
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Dama is considered to be closest living relative of the extinct genus Megaloceros. The circumscription of the genus is uncertain, with some authors choosing...
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†Praeelaphus †Cervavitus? (Eurasia, Late Miocene-Early Pleistocene) †Megaloceros (Eurasia, Early/Middle Pleistocene-Holocene, ~5700 BC) †Praemegaceros...
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Candiacervus (redirect from Megaloceros cretensis)
related to the giant Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus) with some experts regarding Candiacervus as a subgenus of Megaloceros. However, van der Geer (2018)...
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American fossil record until the early Miocene. The extinct Irish elk (Megaloceros) was not a member of the genus Cervus but rather the largest member of...
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globe. The antlers were later confirmed to be from the extinct deer Megaloceros. Hooke and Molyneux's line of thinking was difficult to disprove. When...
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species Dama clactoniana, aurochs (Bos primigenius), the Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus), steppe bison (Bison priscus), the extinct giant beaver Trogontherium...
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costs. Another example given in textbooks is the extinct Irish elk, Megaloceros giganteus. The male Irish elk's enormous antlers could perhaps have evolved...
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Cervalces scotti, the largest races of the extant moose and the Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus), despite some overlap in shoulder height, and is the largest...
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Stuart, Anthony J. (January 2019). "The extinction of the giant deer Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach): New radiocarbon evidence". Quaternary International...
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native to North China) Various deer (Cervidae) spp. Giant deer/Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus) Cretan deer (Candiacervus spp.) Haploidoceros mediterraneus...
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H. W. (2008). "Phylogeny of the giant deer with palmate brow tines Megaloceros from west and Sinomegaceros from east Eurasia" (PDF). Quaternary International...
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deer (Cervus elaphus). Although extinct, the Irish elk (giant deer, Megaloceros giganteus) is also associated with Ireland, because it was first discovered...
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backstory. In the film series, Thranduil rides a giant elk resembling a Megaloceros; the "elk" was a horse named Moose, made up to look like a deer. This...
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hemitoechus), Merck's rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis), Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus) and aurochs (Bos primigenius), alongside still-living species...
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Lubang Jeriji Saléh on the Indonesian island of Borneo, while in 2020 a Megaloceros bone was found in the Harz mountains in Germany, on which specimens of...
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Lister, A. M., & Stuart, A. J. (2019). The extinction of the giant deer Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach): New radiocarbon evidence. Quaternary International...
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