Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Menodus syceras, Titanotherium syceras
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1889. Vertebrata of the Swift Current River. No. III. The American Naturalist 23(271):628-629
Belongs to Megacerops according to Osborn 1929
See also Cope 1889, Cope 1891, Hay 1902, Lambe 1908 and Osborn 1896
Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops elatus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops riggsi, Allops crassicornus, Titanotherium proutii, Diploclonus amplus, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops dispar, Brontops validus, Brontops robustus, Brontops tyleri, Teleodus avus, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus tichoceras, Menodus giganteus, Menodus heloceras, Menodus torvus, Menodus angustigenis, Menops marshi, Menops varians, Menops walcotti, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Menops serotinus, Titanops medius, Symborodon trigonoceras, Symborodon ophryas, Anisacodon montanus
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Conglomerate Creek (Eocene of Saskatchewan)
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