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Cervidae, Deer(s)

family Cervidae Goldfuss, 1820

• Modern species

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Cetartiodactyla

• Distribution
• Miocene: Fukushima, Ishikawa, Ibaraki
• Pliocene: Shizuoka
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Kanagawa, Kagawa
• Quaternary: Fukushima, Gunma, Tochigi, Aichi, Okayama, Kagawa, Fukuoka
• Pleistocene: Aomori, Akita, Iwate, Nagano, Gunma, Tochigi, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Shiga, Kyoto, Hyogo, Osaka, Yamaguchi, Ehime
• Holocene: Tokyo, Gifu
• Investigation in progress: Shiga

• Distribution (Footprints)
• Miocene: Fukui, Hyogo
• Pliocene: Shiga
• Pleistocene: Niigata, Ishikawa, Tokyo, Shiga, Hyogo?, Osaka

• Subtaxa
• Alces, genus, Elk(s)
• Cervus, genus
• Dicrocerus tokunagai
• Elaphurus davidianus, Père David's deer
• Megaloceros giganteus, Irish elk
• Sinomegaceros, genus