Eucladoceros

Eucladoceros
	Eucladoceros antlers in the Museo di Paleontologia in Florence .
Temporal occurrence
	Upper Pliocene to Pleistocene
	2.59 to 0.126 million years
Locations
	Europe; Russia; China;
Systematics
	Forehead weapon bearer (Pecora)
	Cervoidea
	Deer (Cervidae)
	Cervinae
	Real deer (Cervini)
	Eucladoceros
Scientific name
	Eucladoceros
	Nesti , 1841

Eucladoceros ( ancient Greek Εὐκλαδοκέρας (-ος) eukladokeras (os) = gutverzweigtes antler formed from εὖ eu = good (Adv); κλάδος. Klados = branch and κέρας keras , Gen. κέρατος keratos = horn) is an extinct Hirsch - genus of Pliocene and Pleistocene . The highly branched, extremely complex antlers of this genus were particularly striking.

distribution

Eucladoceros first appeared in Europe during the first glaciation phases in the late Pliocene, where it survived until the early Pleistocene and was apparently replaced by the giant deer ( Megaloceros ).

The imposing deer was found in Europe and Central Asia from Portugal to the Amur region , western China and Khabarovsk to the Pacific .

The first finds of Eucladoceros ctenoides and Eucladoceros dicranios from 1841 in Ceyssaguet (near Lavoûte-sur-Loire north of Le Puy-en-Velay ) go back to the Italian researcher Filippo Nesti (1780–1847) from Florence , a research colleague of Georges Cuvier , another is in the Issoiretal west of Clermont-Ferrand .

Appearance

Its head-torso length was 2.50 m, the shoulder height 1.80 m, the antler span 1.70 m. It was a little smaller than Megaloceros giganteus and today's moose . As its name suggests, Eucladoceros dicranios had a special antler shape. An average of twelve slightly curved long ends adorned each antler rod, which looked very much like a branched branch.

In contrast , the species Eucladoceros ctenoides , formerly named Eucladoceros teguliensis after the place where it was found in Tegelen in the Dutch province of Limburg , had two large, upwardly directed and inwardly curved main ends that came off the "main antler pole", which formed the third main end again carried an additional footer. Twelve ends came together with the small page ends. The species Eucladoceros senezensis is similar , named after the place where it was found in Senèze , a hamlet near Brioude ( Haute-Loire department , France ).

So far, the following types are known:

Eucladoceros boulei ( Teilhard de Chardin & Piveteau , 1930) - Nihowan (China) not absolutely certain
Eucladoceros ctenoides ( Nesti , 1841), Syn . : Eucladoceros teguliensis ( Dubois , 1904) - Tegelen ( Zeeland )
Eucladoceros dichotomus ( Teilhard de Chardin & Piveteau , 1930) Nihowan (China) - not absolutely certain
Eucladoceros dicranios ( Nesti , 1841) - Ceyssaguet (Haute-Loire, France)
Eucladoceros senezensis Depéret , 1910 - Senèze (Haute-Loire)
Eucladoceros tetraceros ( Dawkins , 1878) - Sárbogárd ( Hungary )

literature

Sir William Boyd Dawkins: The British Pleistocene Mammalia. 6 volumes. Printed for the Palaeontographical Society, London 1866-1887.
Charles Depéret: The transformation of the animal world. An introduction to the history of development on a palaeontological basis. E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1909.
Arno Hermann Müller : Textbook of paleozoology. Volume 3: Vertebrates. Part 3: Mammalia. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1989, ISBN 3-334-00223-3 .
Wighart von Koenigswald: Living Ice Age. Climate and fauna in transition. Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1734-3 .

Individual evidence

↑ Jordi Augusti: Mammoths, Sabertooths and Hominids 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe. Columbia University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-231-11640-3 , p. 234.

Web links

[1] Jordi Augusti: Mammoths, Sabertooths and Hominids 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe. Columbia University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-231-11640-3 , p. 234.