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, 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 tyleri, Brontops dispar, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops validus
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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