Pseudodama Temporal range: Late Pliocene–Early Pleistocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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Skull of P. nestii | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Cervidae |
Tribe: | Cervini |
Genus: | †Pseudodama Azzaroli,1992 |
Pseudodama is an extinct genus of deer found in Europe during the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene. It has been suggested by some authors to be ancestral to Dama, with some authors choosing to subsume its species into that genus.
References
- Mazza, P. P. A. (2006). "Poggio Rosso (Upper Valdarno, Central Italy), A Window on Latest Pliocene Wildlife" (PDF). PALAIOS. 21 (5): 493–498. Bibcode:2006Palai..21..493M. 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): 13898. Bibcode:2022NatSR..1213898C. 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): 41. Bibcode:2023ArAnS..15...41V. doi:10.1007/s12520-023-01734-3. hdl:10261/307292. ISSN 1866-9557.
Taxon identifiers | |
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Pseudodama |
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