Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Alternative combination: Aphelops fossiger
Synonym: Aceratherium acutum Marsh 1887
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1878. Descriptions of new extinct Vertebrata from the Upper Tertiary and Dakota Formations. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 4(2):379-396
Belongs to Teleoceras according to D. R. Prothero 2005
See also Cope 1878, Cope and Matthew 1915, Hatcher 1894, Hay 1902, Leidy and Lucas 1896, Marsh 1887, Matthew 1918, Prothero and Manning 1987, Scott and Osborn 1890 and Skinner et al. 1968
Sister taxa: Teleoceras (Mesoceras), Teleoceras aepysoma, Teleoceras americanum, Teleoceras brachyrhinum, Teleoceras felicis, Teleoceras guymonense, Teleoceras hicksi, Teleoceras major, Teleoceras medicornutum, Teleoceras meridianum, Teleoceras proterum, Teleoceras pugnator, Teleoceras snowi
Type specimens:
- Teleoceras fossiger: Its type locality is Long Island Quarry, which is in a Hemphillian terrestrial horizon in the Ogallala Formation of Kansas
- Aceratherium acutum:
Ecology: amphibious grazer
Distribution:
• Blancan of Mexico (1 collection)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (8), United States (17: California, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Miocene of United States (6: Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon)
Total: 32 collections each including a single occurrence
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