Name: Megaloceros.
Meaning: Gigantic large horn.
Grouping: Mammal.
Artiodactyl, Cervid.
InfonnallD: Giant elk, Irish elk.
Fossil size: 2.5cm/1 in.
Reconstructed size:
Head-body length 2.5m/8Xft.
Habitat: Woods, scrub, moor.
Time span: Pleistocene,
within the past 400.000 years.
Main fossil sites:
Europe. Asia.
Occurrence: ••