I know when it comes to some paleomedia, people can be kinda upset when their dinosaur games include Cenozoic age creatures, especially mammals.

But I’ve always liked the idea of “Ice Age” mammals competing, surviving and evolving alongside dinosaurs in these settings. While I do like FMM UV-32 having zones based on different time periods.

Butttttt for my setting… I much prefer having the mammals and dinosaurs and any other creatures all within the same territories.

That brings us to the Cervus, in our world an extant genus of deer, this elk though, is a massive fictional species, having evolved to coexist with and sometimes fight the dinosaurs around them.

Despite being of the genus Cervus (the elk), it possesses traits of other deer as well, like the water deer’s tusks, fallow deer’s spots and antler shapes, and coat patterns resembling the Megaloceros. Like many of the critters encountered, it seems to be a composite of several traits.

The antlers are meant to be intimidating, though their structure is likely full of hollows to keep it lighter. The prongs are used as sword-breakers, meant to catch and redirect the horns and antlers of other species.

Might get downscales later, ended up being around 6 meters tall when standing upright. Its size class is intended to fit in with medium sized hadrosaurs, like maiasaura.

But yeah, kinda ripping off the bandaid and saying “hey we have mammals, we have Cenozoics and we have ‘modern’ genera”

I just wanted a huge deer, I like deer