tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...
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deer
Deer or true deer are hoofed ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups of deer are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the red deer, and the fallow deer; and the Capreolinae, including the ...
, containing the extant genus '' Alces'' and the extinct genera ''
Cervalces
''Cervalces'' is an extinct deer genus that lived during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. ''Cervalces gallicus'' is either classified as a species of the related '' Libralces'', or an ancestral species to other members of ''Cervalces''. It li ...
'' and '' Libralces''. Cervalces and Libralces emerged during the
Pliocene
The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58Early Pleistocene .Kahlke, H.D., 1990. On the evolution, distribution and taxonomy of fossil Elk/Moose. Quartarpalaontologie 8, 83–106.
Cervalces
''Cervalces'' is an extinct deer genus that lived during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. ''Cervalces gallicus'' is either classified as a species of the related '' Libralces'', or an ancestral species to other members of ''Cervalces''. It li ...