Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combination: Megacerops brachycephalus
Full reference: H. F. Osborn. 1902. The four phyla of Oligocene titanotheres. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 16(8):91-109
Belongs to Brontops according to H. F. Osborn 1929
See also Ferrusquia-Villafranca 1969, Mader 1998 and Osborn 1902
Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops angustigenis, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops riggsi, Megacerops syceras, Menops crassicornis, Menops walcotti, Menops bakeri, Menops serotinus, Diploclonus bicornutus, Diploclonus selwynianus, Diploclonus tyleri, Brontops dispar, Brontops robustus, Brontops amplus, Menodus giganteus, Menodus heloceras, Menodus torvus, Menodus trigonoceras, Menodus varians, Eotherium, Menodus montanus, Menodus proutii, Allops crassicornus, Allops marshi, Haplacodon, Brontotherium ramosum, Brontotherium hypoceras, Brontotherium medium, Brontotherium tichoceras, Brontotherium rumelicum, Brontotherium dolichoceras, Teleodus avus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Quinn Draw (Lower Titanotherium Beds), which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Eocene of Mexico (1 collection), United States (3: Nebraska, South Dakota)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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