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

Type specimen: AMNH 1447

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

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

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