Reproduction
fossil
Giant deer
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Skull with antlers mounted on wood base board. No mandible apparently it existed in the 1970's possibly lost in the move to the Darwin building. Supported by a fitted wooden brick and two metal armatures.
Megaloceros giganteus
Extinct
[nb-NO]Documentation[nb-NO]
- Mahoney, Roy, Use of Araldite 123B, A Cold-setting Adhesive, In The Repair Of Sub-fossil And Recent Skulls
- Nicholls, Emma-Louise, Specimen of the Week Blog Series
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]
LDUCZ-Z800
Grant Museum of Zoology
Hierarchy
Animalia (kingdom)
Eumetazoa (subkingdom)
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata (phylum/division)
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata (superclass)
Tetrapoda (superclass)
Reptiliomorpha (superorder)
Amniota
Synapsida (class)
Therapsida (order)
Mammalia (class)
Placentalia (subclass)
Cetartiodactyla (superorder)
Artiodactyla (order)
Selenodontia (suborder)
Cervoidea (superfamily)
Cervidae (family)
Megaloceros (genus)
giganteus (species)
