Brontotherium ramosum Osborn 1896 (brontothere)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae

Alternative combination: Titanotherium ramosum

Full reference: H. F. Osborn. 1896. The cranial evolution of Titanotherium. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 8(9):157-197

Belongs to Brontotherium according to H. F. Osborn 1929

See also Hay 1902, Mader and Alexander 1995, Osborn 1896 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, Brontotherium rumelicum, Brontotherium tichoceras, Brontotherium hypoceras, Brontotherium medium, Brontotherium dolichoceras, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops robustus, Brontops amplus, Brontops dispar, Menodus giganteus, Menodus heloceras, Menodus torvus, Menodus varians, Menodus trigonoceras, Menodus proutii, Menodus montanus, Eotherium, Menops serotinus, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Menops walcotti, Haplacodon, Allops marshi, Allops crassicornus, Diploclonus selwynianus, Diploclonus bicornutus, Diploclonus tyleri, Teleodus avus

Type specimen: AMNH 1447

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Brontotherium ramosum in the database

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