Eastern elk

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Eastern elk

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Ruminantia
Family: Cervidae
Genus: Cervus
Species: C. candensis
Subspecies: C. canadensis canadiensis
Trinomial name
'Cervus canadensis canadiensis

The Eastern elk (Cervus canadensis canadiensis) was a subspecies of elk that inhabited north and west USA, and southern Canada.

The last ones died out in 1896 in Minnesota.

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