Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Brontops selwynianus, Brontotherium selwynianum, Megacerops selwynianus, Menodus selwynianus, Titanotherium selwynianus
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1889. Vertebrata of the Swift Current River. No. III. The American Naturalist 23(271):628-629
Belongs to Diploclonus according to H. F. Osborn 1929
See also Cope 1889, Cope 1891, Hay 1902, Lambe 1908, Mader 1989, Mader 1998, 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, Menops walcotti, Menops crassicornis, Menops serotinus, Menops bakeri, Teleodus avus, Brontops robustus, Brontops amplus, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops dispar, Allops marshi, Allops crassicornus, Haplacodon, Diploclonus bicornutus, Diploclonus tyleri, Brontotherium medium, Brontotherium rumelicum, Brontotherium ramosum, Brontotherium tichoceras, Brontotherium dolichoceras, Brontotherium hypoceras, Menodus heloceras, Menodus torvus, Menodus proutii, Menodus montanus, Eotherium, Menodus trigonoceras, Menodus varians, Menodus giganteus
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Conglomerate Creek (Eocene of Saskatchewan)
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