Irish elk Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene to Early Holocene, 0.781–0.008 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Mounted skeleton Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Cervidae Subfamily: Cervinae Genus: †Megaloceros Species: †M. giganteus Binomial name †Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach, 1799) Synonyms †Megaceros giganteus †Megaloceros giganteus giganteus †Cervus giganteus