Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Megacerops dispar, Titanotherium dispar
Synonyms: Brontops validus Marsh 1891, Titanotherium validum Marsh 1891
Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1887. Notice of new fossil mammals. American Journal of Science 34(202):323-331
Belongs to Brontops according to H. F. Osborn 1929
See also Clark and Beerbower 1967, Hay 1902, Mader 1989, Mader 1998, Marsh 1887, Marsh 1891, Osborn 1896, Osborn 1902 and Osborn and Wortman 1895
Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops angustigenis, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops riggsi, Megacerops syceras, Brontops robustus, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops amplus, Menodus giganteus, Menodus varians, Menodus torvus, Eotherium, Menodus trigonoceras, Menodus montanus, Menodus proutii, Menodus heloceras, Allops crassicornus, Haplacodon, Allops marshi, Menops bakeri, Menops walcotti, Menops serotinus, Menops crassicornis, Brontotherium tichoceras, Brontotherium ramosum, Brontotherium medium, Brontotherium rumelicum, Brontotherium hypoceras, Brontotherium dolichoceras, Diploclonus bicornutus, Diploclonus tyleri, Diploclonus selwynianus, Teleodus avus
Type specimens:
- Brontops dispar: USNM 4941, a skull (nearly complete skull with lower jaws and entire dentition). Its type locality is Warbonnet Creek (Chadron), which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in Nebraska.
- Brontops validus: USNM 4290, a skull (a skull in fine preservation).
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Nebraska, South Dakota collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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