Unlike modern fallow deer, Dama celiae has pointed antlers that lack palmation.

It has a large, prominent brow (first and lowest) tine which curves upwards, and branches close to the base of the antler.

The main beam of the antler lacks branching, and is directed backwards and outwards.

[1] Dama celiae is known from two sites in Spain, Pedro Jaro I and Orcasitas, which date back to MIS 9 (~300,000 years ago).

[1] Remains likely of D. celiae have been found with cut marks, indicating that they were butchered and probably hunted by archaic humans, likely early Neanderthals who produced an Acheulean stone tool industry at the sites where D. celiae is found.