Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Diploclonus tyleri, Megacerops tyleri
Full reference: R. S. Lull. 1905. Megacerops tyleri, a new species of titanothere from the Bad Lands of South Dakota. Journal of Geology 13(5):443-456
Belongs to Brontops according to B. J. Mader 1989
See also Lull 1905, Mader 1998 and Osborn 1929
Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops elatus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops riggsi, Megacerops syceras, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Menops marshi, Menops varians, Menops serotinus, Menops walcotti, Teleodus avus, Titanops medius, Titanotherium proutii, Menodus angustigenis, Menodus tichoceras, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus giganteus, Menodus torvus, Menodus heloceras, Symborodon trigonoceras, Symborodon ophryas, Anisacodon montanus, Diploclonus amplus, Allops crassicornus, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops robustus, Brontops dispar, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops validus
Type specimen: Amherst College Zoological Collection No. 327, a skeleton (mostly complete skeleton). Its type locality is Bear Creek (Middle Titanotherium Beds), which is in a Chadronian fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Bear Creek (Middle Titanotherium Beds)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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