Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Brontops bicornutus, Megacerops bicornutus
Full reference: H. F. Osborn. 1902. The four phyla of Oligocene titanotheres. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 16(8):91-109
Belongs to Diploclonus according to H. F. Osborn 1929
See also Mader 1989, Mader 1998, Mader and Alexander 1995, Osborn 1902 and Scott 1941
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 marshi, Allops crassicornus, Haplacodon, Menodus giganteus, Menodus varians, Menodus proutii, Menodus trigonoceras, Menodus heloceras, Eotherium, Menodus montanus, Menodus torvus, Diploclonus selwynianus, Diploclonus tyleri, Brontotherium dolichoceras, Brontotherium hypoceras, Brontotherium medium, Brontotherium rumelicum, Brontotherium ramosum, Brontotherium tichoceras, Menops crassicornis, Menops walcotti, Menops bakeri, Menops serotinus, Teleodus avus, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops amplus, Brontops robustus, Brontops dispar
Type specimen: Its type locality is Quinn Draw (Middle Titanotherium Beds), which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Quinn Draw (Middle Titanotherium Beds)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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