Menops walcotti Osborn 1916 (brontothere)

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, Menops bakeri, Menops varians, Menops marshi, Menops crassicornis, Menops serotinus, Teleodus avus, Symborodon ophryas, Symborodon trigonoceras, Anisacodon montanus, Titanops medius, Diploclonus amplus, Menodus tichoceras, Menodus heloceras, Menodus torvus, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus giganteus, Menodus angustigenis, Menodus hypoceras, Titanotherium proutii, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops validus, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops dispar, Brontops tyleri, Brontops robustus, Brontops brachycephalus, Allops crassicornus

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)

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