| Pseudodama Temporal range:
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| Skull of P. nestii | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Subfamily: | Cervinae |
| Tribe: | Cervini |
| Genus: | †
Pseudodama Azzaroli,1992 |
Pseudodama is an extinct genus of deer found in Europe during the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene. [1] It has been suggested by some authors to be ancestral to Dama [2], with some authors choosing to subsume its species into that genus. [3]
References
- ^ Mazza, P. P. A. (2006). "Poggio Rosso (Upper Valdarno, Central Italy), A Window on Latest Pliocene Wildlife" (PDF). PALAIOS. 21 (5): 493–498. doi: 10.2110/palo.2005.P05-033R. S2CID 129513994.
- ^ Cherin, Marco; Breda, Marzia; Esattore, Bruno; Hart, Vlastimil; Turek, Jiří; Porciello, Francesco; Angeli, Giovanni; Holpin, Sofia; Iurino, Dawid A. (2022-08-16). "A Pleistocene Fight Club revealed by the palaeobiological study of the Dama-like deer record from Pantalla (Italy)". Scientific Reports. 12 (1). doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-18091-1. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 9381596. PMID 35974071.
- ^ van der Made, Jan; Rodríguez-Alba, Juan José; Martos, Juan Antonio; Gamarra, Jesús; Rubio-Jara, Susana; Panera, Joaquín; Yravedra, José (April 2023). "The fallow deer Dama celiae sp. nov. with two-pointed antlers from the Middle Pleistocene of Madrid, a contemporary of humans with Acheulean technology". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15 (4). doi: 10.1007/s12520-023-01734-3. hdl: 10261/307292. ISSN 1866-9557.
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