Cervus elaphus acoronatus

Cervus elaphus acoronatus
Skeleton in anatomical connection of Cervus elaphus acoronatus discovered in Sovere, Bergamo
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Cervidae
Genus:	Cervus
Species:	C. elaphus
Subspecies:	†C. e. acoronatus
Trinomial name
†Cervus elaphus acoronatus (Beninde, 1937)

Cervus elaphus acoronatus is an extinct subspecies of the red deer belonging to the family Cervidae. Some authors consider it a distinct species, Cervus acoronatus.

Cervus elaphus acoronatus was a red deer subspecies of large size, similar to that of the existing red deer, Cervus elaphus, with large and well-developed antlers.^[1] In this archaic form, the antlers lack at their apices, even in adult individuals, the characteristic multipointed "crown" (hence the Latin name acoronatus, meaning without crown). In this subspecies, the antlers have a simple distal fork oriented transversally to the axis of the body.

It is a deer of Eastern origin, reported in Central Europe in the Pleistocene. The fossil records of C. e. acoronatus start in the lower Middle Pleistocene.^[2] Later, the morphology of the antlers changed, developing the mentioned crown.

• Anna Paganoni, Benedetto Sala - Il cervo di Sovere
• Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Middle Pleistocene deer remains from Arago

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