''Cervalces'' is an extinct

deer A deer (: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family). Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer) ...

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that lived during the

Pliocene The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch (geology), epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.33 to 2.58Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( ; referred to colloquially as the ''ice age, Ice Age'') is the geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fin ...

epochs. ''Cervalces gallicus'' is either classified as a species of the related '' Libralces'', or an ancestral species to other members of ''Cervalces''. It lived in Europe from the Pliocene to the Pleistocene. '' Cervalces scotti'', the stag-moose, lived in Pleistocene North America. '' Cervalces latifrons'', the broad-fronted moose, and '' Cervalces carnutorum'' were found in Pleistocene Europe and Asia. The genus has been suggested to be paraphyletic and ancestral with respect to '' Alces'', the genus which contains the modern

moose The moose (: 'moose'; used in North America) or elk (: 'elk' or 'elks'; used in Eurasia) (''Alces alces'') is the world's tallest, largest and heaviest extant species of deer and the only species in the genus ''Alces''. It is also the tal ...

, and as such, some authors synonymise ''Cervalces'' with ''Alces''.

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