大角鹿
Neither exclusive to Ireland nor an elk, it was named so because the most well-known and best-preserved fossil specimens have been found in lake sediments and peat bogs in Ireland. The Irish elk had a far-reaching range, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the West to Lake Baikal in the East. They do not appear to have extended northward onto the open mammoth steppe, rather keeping to the boreal steppe-woodland environments, which consisted of scattered spruce and pine, as well as low-lying herbs and shrubs including grasses, sedges, "Ephedra, Artemisia" and Chenopodiaceae.In Bulgaria (one of the southernmost parts of the species’ range) the Irish Elk is known from seven sites that are located mainly in the northwestern part of the country at 40 to 400 m a. s. l. in the Lower Danube Plain. They covered a chronostratigraphical distribution Middle Pleistocene (Upper Biharian) to Late Pleistocene (Epigravettian)