Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Full reference: H. F. Osborn. 1916. Two new Oligocene titanotheres. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35(40):1-4
Belongs to Megacerops according to H. F. Osborn 1916
See also Mader 1989 and Mader 1998
Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops elatus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops syceras, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops tyleri, Brontops robustus, Brontops validus, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops dispar, Symborodon trigonoceras, Symborodon ophryas, Anisacodon montanus, Titanotherium proutii, Allops crassicornus, Diploclonus amplus, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus heloceras, Menodus angustigenis, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus giganteus, Menodus torvus, Menodus tichoceras, Teleodus avus, Titanops medius, Menops serotinus, Menops marshi, Menops varians, Menops walcotti, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri
Type specimen: Its type locality is Horsetail Creek, which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the White River Formation of Colorado
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Horsetail Creek
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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