Diploclonus amplus Marsh 1890 (brontothere)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae

Alternative combinations: Allops amplus, Brontops amplus, Megacerops amplus, Menodus amplus, Titanotherium amplum

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1890. Notice of new Tertiary mammals. American Journal of Science 39:523-525

Belongs to Diploclonus according to O. C. Marsh 1890

See also Clark and Beerbower 1967, Hay 1902, Mader 1989, Mader 1998, Osborn 1896, Osborn 1902, Osborn 1929 and Scott 1941

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

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Diploclonus amplus in the database

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