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, Diploclonus amplus, Brontops dispar, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops validus, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops robustus, Brontops tyleri, Allops crassicornus, Menodus torvus, Menodus angustigenis, Menodus giganteus, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus tichoceras, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus heloceras, Menops bakeri, Menops crassicornis, Menops marshi, Menops walcotti, Menops serotinus, Menops varians, Titanops medius, Titanotherium proutii, Symborodon trigonoceras, Symborodon ophryas, Anisacodon montanus, Teleodus avus
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Conglomerate Creek (Eocene of Saskatchewan)
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