Alces latifrons

• Interesting Facts
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Alces

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. alces (European Elk) · A. alces buturlini (Moose) · A. alces cameloides (Eurasian Moose) · A. alces caucasicus (Moose) · A. americanus (Moose)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of British fossil vertebrata / by Arthur Smith Woodward and Charles Davies Sherborn. London: Dulau & co., 1890. url p. 329, p. 334.
• A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palontology in the British Museum (Natural history). .. With 6 plates and 88 text-figures. London: Printed by order of the Trustees [by W. Clowes and sons, limited], 1909. url p. 42.
• A hand-book to the British mammalia. London, Edward Lloyd, 1896. url , , p. 309, p. 309, p. 309, p. 329, p. 329.
• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York, New York Academy of Sciences. url , p. 246, p. 264, p. 275, p. 40.
• British mammals; an attempt to describe and illustrate the mammalian fauna of the British islands from the commencement of the Pleistocene period down to the present day, London, Hutchinson, 1903. url .
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 16, p. 19, p. 22, p. 27, p. 46, p. 94.
• Catalogue of the fossil Mammalia in the British museum (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1885-1887. url p. 78.
• Catalogue of the fossil mammalia in the British Museum (Natural History), by Richard Lydekker. London, Trustees of the B.M., 1885-7. url p. 78.
• Evolution in the past, London, Herbert and Daniel, 1912. url .
• Evolution in the past, by Henry R. Knipe, with illustrations by Alice B. Woodward and Ernest Bucknall. London: Herbert and Daniel, 1912. url p. 189.
• Geological magazine. London [etc.]Cambridge University Press. url p. 134, p. 166, p. 167, p. 229, p. 33, p. 426, p. 439.
• Handbuch der Biologie der Wirbeltiere. Von Dr. M. Hilzheimer. unter Mitwirkung von Dr. Phil. O. Haempel. mikt 599 Textabbildungen. vii, 756 p.illus (part col.)26 cm. url p. 612, p. 705, p. 731.
• Mammals of the Soviet Union / V.G. Heptner, A.A. Nasimovich, and A.G. Bannikov; scientific editor, Robert S. Hoffmann. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation, 1988- url p. 305.
• Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society. London: Printed for the Palaeontographical Society, [1847?- url , , , , .
• Our country's animals and how to know them. A guide to the mammals, reptiles and amphibians of Great Britain. With plates and diagrams by R.E. Holding. London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent[1904] url p. 93.
• Outlines of vertebrate palæontology for students of zoology / by Arthur Smith Woodward. Cambridge: University Press, 1898. url p. 368.
• Proboscidea: a monograph of the discovery, evolution, migration and extinction of the mastodonts and elephants of the world / by Henry Fairfield Osborn; edited by Mabel Rice Percy. New York: Published on the J. Pierpont Morgan Fund by the trustees of the American Museum of Natural History: 1936-1942. url p. 1155, p. 1631.
• Publications in palaentology = Publications en paleontologie. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1970-1982. url p. 57.
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 75.
• The Vertebrata of the Pliocene deposits of Britain. London, Printed for H.M. Stationery off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1891. url , , .
• The Victoria history of the county of Norfolk. Westminster, etc.: [Constable], 1901- url p. 33, p. 33.
• The age of mammals in Europe, Asia and North America, by Henry Fairfield Osborn. .. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1910. url p. 394, p. 395, p. 400.
• The history of the European fauna. London, W. Scott, 1899. url p. 202, p. 96.
• The mammals of the Caucasus; a history of the evolution of the fauna. (Mlekopitayushchie Kavkaza; istoriya formirovaniya fauny). [By] N. K. Vereskchagin. Chief editor: E. N. Pavlovskii. Editor of this volume: A. A. Strelkov. Translated from Russian [by A. Lerman and B. Rabinovich. Edited by M. Loeb] Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations [available from the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Va.], 1967. url p. 440.
• Transactions and proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. [Edinburgh]: The Society, 1891-1970. url p. 240, p. 240.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 12, 2007:

• Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5615488
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16333076
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 613035

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