Teleoceras Hatcher 1894 (rhinoceros)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

Synonyms: Eusyodon Leidy 1886, Paraphelops Lane 1927

Full reference: J. B. Hatcher. 1894. A Median Horned Rhinoceros From the Loup Fork Beds of Nebraska. The American Geologist 8(3):149-150

Parent taxon: Teleoceratini according to R. A. Short et al. 2019

See also Albright et al. 2019, Carroll 1988, Cope and Matthew 1915, Gustafson 2012, Hatcher 1894, Hay 1902, Hulbert and Whitmore 2006, Lane 1927, Matthew 1932, May 2019, Prothero 1998, Prothero 2005, Prothero and Manning 1987, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Scott 1913 and Thurmond and Jones 1981

Sister taxa: Aprotodon, Brachydiceratherium, Brachypodella, Brachypotherium, Diaceratherium, Prosantorhinus

Subtaxa: Teleoceras (Mesoceras) Teleoceras aepysoma Teleoceras americanum Teleoceras brachyrhinum Teleoceras felicis Teleoceras fossiger Teleoceras guymonense Teleoceras hicksi Teleoceras major Teleoceras medicornutum Teleoceras meridianum Teleoceras proterum Teleoceras pugnator Teleoceras snowi

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Ecology: amphibious grazer

Distribution:

• Blancan of Mexico (1 collection), United States (2: Nevada, Washington)

• Pliocene of Ukraine (1)

• Hemphillian of Canada (1: Alberta), Honduras (2), Mexico (15), United States (73: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Washington)

• Miocene of Egypt (1), Honduras (1), Mexico (1), United States (242: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, Wyoming)

Total: 340 collections including 348 occurrences

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