Cervalces

{{Short description|Extinct genus of deer}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Pliocene-Pleistocene

| image = ROM - Stag-moose.jpg

| image_upright = 1.2

| image_caption = The stag-moose, Cervalces scotti

| taxon = Cervalces

| authority = Scott, 1885

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• C. gallicus?
• C. carnutorum
• C. scotti
• C. latifrons

| synonyms = Alces

}}

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 lived in Europe from the Pliocene to the Pleistocene. Cervalces scotti, the stag-moose, lived in Pleistocene North America.{{cite web |url=http://www.ansp.org/museum/jefferson/otherFossils/cervalces.php |title=Stag Moose (Cervalces scotti) |accessdate=2007-03-03 |publisher=The Academy of Natural Sciences |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216031241/http://www.ansp.org/museum/jefferson/otherFossils/cervalces.php |archivedate=2007-02-16 }} Cervalces latifrons, the broad-fronted moose,{{cite web |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/species-of-the-day/evolution/cervalces-latifrons/ |title=Cervalces latifrons |author=Breda, Marzia |year=2010 |publisher=Natural History Museum |accessdate=2013-01-12}} 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, and as such, some authors synonymise Cervalces with Alces.{{Citation |last=Athanassiou |first=Athanassios |title=The Fossil Record of Continental Fossil Deer (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Cervidae) in Greece |date=2022 |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-68442-6_6 |work=Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 2 |pages=205–247 |editor-last=Vlachos |editor-first=Evangelos |access-date=2023-06-14 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-68442-6_6 |isbn=978-3-030-68441-9|url-access=subscription }}