Brontops tyleri Lull 1905 (brontothere)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae

Alternative combinations: Diploclonus tyleri, Megacerops tyleri

Full reference: R. S. Lull. 1905. Megacerops tyleri, a new species of titanothere from the Bad Lands of South Dakota. Journal of Geology 13(5):443-456

Belongs to Brontops according to B. J. Mader 1989

See also Lull 1905, Mader 1998 and Osborn 1929

Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops elatus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops riggsi, Megacerops syceras, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus torvus, Menodus heloceras, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus angustigenis, Menodus giganteus, Menodus tichoceras, Allops crassicornus, Symborodon ophryas, Symborodon trigonoceras, Anisacodon montanus, Menops crassicornis, Menops serotinus, Menops walcotti, Menops bakeri, Menops varians, Menops marshi, Teleodus avus, Brontops robustus, Brontops dispar, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops validus, Titanops medius, Titanotherium proutii, Diploclonus amplus

Type specimen: Amherst College Zoological Collection No. 327, a skeleton (mostly complete skeleton). Its type locality is Bear Creek (Middle Titanotherium Beds), which is in a Chadronian fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota.

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution: found only at Bear Creek (Middle Titanotherium Beds)

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