Praemegaceros

rdf:langString Praemegaceros

rdf:langString Portis, 1920

rdf:langString Early Pleistocene to Holocene

rdf:langString Skull of P. obscurus

rdf:langString *P. dawkinsi *P. cazioti *P. obscurus *P. pliotarandoides *P. solilhacus *P. verticornis

rdf:langString *Praerangifer *Orthogonoceros *Tamanalces

rdf:langString Praemegaceros

rdf:langString Praemegaceros is an extinct genus of deer, known from the Pleistocene and Holocene of Western Eurasia. It contains the subgenera Praemegaceros, Orthogonoceros and Nesoleipoceros. It has sometimes been synonymised with Megaloceros and Megaceroides, however they have been found to be generically distinct. P. obscurus is the earliest known species from the Early Pleistocene of Europe, and had long, crooked antlers. P. verticornis is an Early to Mid-Pleistocene species, closely related to P. obscurus, which lived throughout Southern Europe. The genus was widely distributed across Europe, West and Central Asia during the Early-Middle Pleistocene, with fossils having been discovered in France, Georgia, Germany, England, Greece, Israel, Italy, Romania, Russia Spain, Syria, and Tajikistan. The genus was extinct in mainland Europe and Asia by end of the Middle Pleistocene. An insular species, P. cazioti survived into the Late Pleistocene and Holocene in isolation on Sardinia until around 5500 BCE.