Protitan Granger and Gregory 1943 (brontothere)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae

Full reference: W. Granger and W. K. Gregory. 1943. A revision of the Mongolian titanotheres. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 80(10):349-389

Parent taxon: Brontotheriina according to M. C. Mihlbachler 2008

See also Carroll 1988, Granger and Gregory 1943 and Prothero and Schoch 1989

Sister taxa: Brontotheriita, Diplacodon, Epimanteoceras, Pachytitan, Rhinotitan

Subtaxa: Protitan bellus Protitan cingulatus Protitan grangeri Protitan major Protitan minor Protitan obliquidens Protitan reshetovi Protitan robustus

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Type: Protitanotherium grangeri

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution:

• Eocene of China (5 collections), Mongolia (1), North Korea (1)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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