Pseudodama Temporal range:
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Skull of P. nestii | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Cervidae |
Subfamily: | Cervinae |
Tribe: | Cervini |
Genus: | †Pseudodama Azzaroli,1992 |
Pseudodama is an extinct genus of deer found in Europe during the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene.[1] It has been suggested by some authors to be ancestral to Dama[2], with some authors choosing to subsume its species into that genus.[3]