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 H. F. Osborn 1929
See also Cope 1889, Cope 1891, Hay 1902, Lambe 1908 and Osborn 1896
Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops angustigenis, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops riggsi, Teleodus avus, Brontops amplus, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops robustus, Brontops dispar, Diploclonus tyleri, Diploclonus bicornutus, Diploclonus selwynianus, Menops bakeri, Menops serotinus, Menops walcotti, Menops crassicornis, Brontotherium ramosum, Brontotherium hypoceras, Brontotherium tichoceras, Brontotherium dolichoceras, Brontotherium medium, Brontotherium rumelicum, Haplacodon, Allops marshi, Allops crassicornus, Menodus giganteus, Menodus proutii, Menodus montanus, Menodus torvus, Menodus trigonoceras, Menodus heloceras, Menodus varians, Eotherium
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Conglomerate Creek (Eocene of Saskatchewan)
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