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Megaloceros (Irish elk)

Taxonomy
Megaloceros was named by Brookes (1828). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Cervidae by Carroll (1988); to Megacerini by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Cervinae by Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1828Megaloceros Brookes
1988Megaloceros Carroll
1997Megaloceros McKenna and Bell p. 428
2008Megaloceros Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 974 figs. Fig. 5

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