Table 3.

Comparison among the shoulder height of all Cretan deer of the genus Candiacervus on the basis of the index of Godynicky (1965)

	Shoulder height
Taxa	Min–Max	M	N
Candiacervus major	—	1848	1
Candiacervus size‐group 1†	501–596	553	66
Candiacervus size‐group 2†	561–594	630	45
Candiacervus size‐group 3†∧	755–819	792	3
Candiacervus size‐group 4†	990–1100	1045	2
Candiacervus cretensis §	501–660	—	—
Candiacervus cretensis°	560–601	584	5
Candiacervus ropalophorus/Candiacervus spp. II∧	450–676	580	128
(?Candiacervus ropalophorus)∧∧	450–589	552	70
(?Candiacervus spp. II)∧∧	592–676	614	58
Candiacervus dorothensis ∧	1370–1371	1370	2

Values (in mm) calculated from length of long bones reported by ^†de Vos (1979), ^§Kuss (1975), °Malatesta (1980), ^∧Capasso Barbato (1989), ^∧∧Capasso Barbato (1995).