Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Full reference: C. Stock. 1937. An Eocene Titanothere from San Diego County, California, with Remarks on the Age of the Poway Conglomerate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 23(2):48-53
Belongs to Metarhinus according to M. C. Mihlbachler and T. A. Deméré 2010
See also Mader 2008, Mihlbachler 2008 and Stock 1937
Sister taxa: Metarhinus abbotti, Metarhinus cristatus, Metarhinus diploconus, Metarhinus earlei, Metarhinus fluviatilis, Telmatherium accola, Telmatherium advocata, Heterotitanops parvus
Type specimen: CIT 2037, a skull (right half of the muzzle of a skull from the anterior part of the orbit to the anterior end of the maxillary with the canine and P1-M3 ). Its type locality is San Diego Mission (CIT 249), which is in an Uintan terrestrial conglomerate in the Friars Formation of California.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (13: California collections)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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