Haploidoceros
Sign in to saveHaploidoceros is an extinct genus of deer that lived in Europe from the late Middle Pleistocene to early Late Pleistocene. It contains a single species, '''Haploidoceros mediterraneus.''' It had a distribution limited to southern France and the Iberian Peninsula.
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Haploidoceros is an extinct genus of deer that lived in Europe from the late Middle Pleistocene to early Late Pleistocene. It contains a single species, '''Haploidoceros mediterraneus.' It had a distribution limited to southern France and the Iberian Peninsula.
==Taxonomy== Haploidoceros was described in 2008. Its remains were originally assigned to the genus Euctenoceros (now usually synonymous with Eucladoceros), though examination of the cranial proportions and morphology show it is distinct. Analysis of its antlers has led some authors to suggest that it descended from the genus Arvernoceros, which is closely related and sometimes considered a subgenus of Rucervus, which contains the living barasinga.
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