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(Redirected from Agalmaceros blicki) Extinct genus of deer

Agalmaceros
Temporal range: Pleistocene (Uquian-Lujanian)
~2.588–0.012 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Capreolinae
Genus: †Agalmaceros
Hoffstetter 1952
Species: †A. blicki
Binomial name
†Agalmaceros blicki
Frick 1937

Agalmaceros is a potentially invalid extinct genus of deer of the Cervidae family, that lived in South America during the Pleistocene. The only species currently known is A. blicki. Remains have only been found in Ecuador. It showed a clear affinity to Andean or temperate habitats. Agalmaceros blicki is estimated to have been 60 kilograms (130 lb) in weight.

A 2023 paper considered another extinct South American deer genus, Charitoceros, a junior synonym of Agalmaceros; both taxa are diagnosed by the presence of thorns on their antlers. Furthermore, these thorns are symptoms of a pathology that also affects some extant deer; besides thorns, the antlers of Agalmaceros are identical to those of the modern white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Thus, the authors consider Agalmaceros to be itself a junior synonym of O. virginianus, which would render both Agalmaceros and Charitoceros invalid taxa.

References

  1. "Agalmaceros blicki". Fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. Ochsenius, Claudio (1985). "Pleniglacial Desertization, Large-AnimalMassExtinction and Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in South America" (PDF). Revista de Geografía Norte Grande. 12: 35–47.
  3. Lyons, Kathleen (2004). "Of mice, mastodons and men: human-mediated extinctions on four continents" (PDF). Evolutionary Ecology Research. 6: 339–358.
  4. Avilla, Leonardo Santos; Román-Carrión, José Luis; Rotti, Alline (2023-11-06). "A thorny taxonomic issue of Quaternary deer (Cervidae: Mammalia) from the South American Highlands resolved based on the recognition of a paleopathology". Journal of Quaternary Science. doi:10.1002/jqs.3577. ISSN 0267-8179.
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