| Cretan Dwarf Megacerine Temporal range: Late Pleistocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Genus: | †Candiacervus |
| Species: | †C. cretensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Candiacervus cretensis (Simonelli, 1908) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Megaloceros cretensis |
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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 centimetres (24 in) high at the withers.