It lived during the Middle Pleistocene (with fossils spanning around 500-300,000 years ago).

[3] Specimens are known from Western Europe, including Italy,[2] Britain,[4] France and Spain.

[5] Dental wear analysis of remains from the site of Fontana Aruccio in Italy suggests that D. clactoniana was primarily a browser.

[6] Evidence has been found for the butchery Dama clactoniana during the Clactonian period (~424-415,000 years ago) in Britain by Homo heidelbergensis.

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