Paleo files- Megaloceros

Common name: Giant deer
Scientific name: Megaloceros giganteus
Year named: 1799, by Blumanbach
Length: 8'
Height: 7' at shoulder
Weight: antlers up to 88 lb
Homeworld: Earth (Extinct)
Time: early Pleistocene to early Holocene, 400,000-7700 ya
Range: Eurasia, from Ireland to east of Lake Baikal & even China
Biome: Cold plains and open forests (temperate and cold marshes for the similar Ice Age stag-moose)
Frequency: Common
Areas: Igaru Taiga, Alverian Tundra
Organization: Solitary or herd (3-14)
Diet: Nutrious plants such as forbs and shoots
Enemies:

In the lands of the Igaru Taiga & Alverian Tundra, many long-lost tribes of human barbarians used megaloceros as cavalry, since they are easier to train than the brutally powerful but extremely stubborn coelodonta. Communities in the more forested temperate zones might have seen a megaloceros skull brought down from the Igaru Taiga as some sort of forest spirit due to the immense antler size.