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, Allops crassicornus, Allops marshi, Haplacodon, Brontotherium tichoceras, Brontotherium dolichoceras, Brontotherium medium, Brontotherium rumelicum, Brontotherium hypoceras, Teleodus avus, Menodus giganteus, Menodus proutii, Eotherium, Menodus torvus, Menodus varians, Menodus montanus, Menodus heloceras, Menodus trigonoceras, Diploclonus bicornutus, Diploclonus tyleri, Diploclonus selwynianus, Menops serotinus, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Menops walcotti, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops robustus, Brontops amplus, Brontops dispar

Type specimen: AMNH 1447

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

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

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