Cervidae

Cervidae is a scientific classification in taxonomy, the order of evolution of living things. Cervidae is family in this system, and it contains a large number of animals. Currently the system is based in genetic material alongside miniscule physical similarities, however historically this group would have had different, physiological and observational means to place animals in this category. They contain creatures often called deer in English, however not all members of this family contain the suffix deer in their full common name.
Cervidae split from all the other kinds of "deer" in Central Asia in the Middle Miocene (11-7 MYA). The subfamily Odocoileinae split further during the Late Miocene and start of the Pliocene and most of them moved to The Americashttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790306000698?via%3Dihub.
It splits into two subfamilies, Cervinae and Odocoileinaehttps://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/14/11/1154/1026375?login=falsehttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deer&oldid=1094105302. These contain further evolutionary splits. These two can be distinguished skeletally. The "thumbs" or back hooves on their front legs differ in arrangement. The many different species of the two evolutionary lines can be distinguished by their metacarpals. 
==Cervinae==
Sometimes called Old World deer in common speech. Also plesiometacarpal deer in more anatomical terms.
Cervini
*Axis
* Cervus
*Dama
*Elaphurus
*Hippocamelus
*Panolia
* Rucervus
* Rusa
Muntiacini 
*Elaphodus
*Muntiacus
==Odocoileinae==
Also called Capreolinae or New World deer or telemetacarpal deer. 
Alceini
*Alces
Capreolini
*Capreolus
*Hydropotes
Rangiferini
*Blastocerus
*Mazama (various unrelated group species in this name)
*Odocoileus
*Pudu
==References==
Category:Deer
Category:Elk
Category:Moose
Category:Cervinae
Category:Cervidae
Category:Odocoileinae
Category:Extinct deer