Cretan Dwarf Megacerine

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

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.

See also

• List of extinct animals of Europe
• Insular dwarfism

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