Cretan Dwarf Megacerine

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Cretan Dwarf Megacerine
Fossil range: Late Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Genus: Candiacervus
Species: C. cretensis
Binomial name
Candiacervus cretensis
Synonyms

Megaloceros cretensis

The Cretan Dwarf Megacerine, scientifically known as Candiacervus cretensis, or Megaloceros cretensis, is an extinct species of deer from the late Pleistocene of the island of (Crete, Greece). In life, it would have been about 60 centimeters at the withers.

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