Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Allops walcotti, Menodus walcotti
Full reference: H. F. Osborn. 1916. Two new Oligocene titanotheres. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35(40):1-4
Belongs to Menops according to B. J. Mader 1998
See also Clark and Beerbower 1967, Mader 1989 and Osborn 1916
Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops elatus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops riggsi, 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 crassicornis, Menops bakeri
Type specimen: Its type locality is Corral Draw (Lower Titanotherium Beds), which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Corral Draw (Lower Titanotherium Beds)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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