Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Megacerops dispar, Titanotherium dispar
Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1887. Notice of new fossil mammals. American Journal of Science 34(202):323-331
Belongs to Brontops according to B. J. Mader 1998
See also Hay 1902, Mader 1989, Marsh 1887, Osborn 1896, Osborn 1902, Osborn 1929 and Osborn and Wortman 1895
Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops elatus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops riggsi, Megacerops syceras, Teleodus avus, Titanops medius, Menops varians, Menops marshi, Menops walcotti, Menops crassicornis, Menops serotinus, Menops bakeri, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops robustus, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops validus, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops tyleri, Titanotherium proutii, Menodus tichoceras, Menodus giganteus, Menodus heloceras, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus angustigenis, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus torvus, Allops crassicornus, Symborodon ophryas, Symborodon trigonoceras, Anisacodon montanus, Diploclonus amplus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Warbonnet Creek (Chadron), which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in Nebraska
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Nebraska, South Dakota collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.