Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Brontops tyleri, Megacerops tyleri
Full reference: R. S. Lull. 1905. Megacerops tyleri, a new species of titanothere from the Bad Lands of South Dakota. Journal of Geology 13(5):443-456
Belongs to Diploclonus according to H. F. Osborn 1929
See also Lull 1905, Mader 1989 and Mader 1998
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 ramosum, Brontotherium rumelicum, Brontotherium hypoceras, Teleodus avus, Menodus giganteus, Menodus proutii, Eotherium, Menodus torvus, Menodus varians, Menodus montanus, Menodus heloceras, Menodus trigonoceras, Diploclonus bicornutus, Diploclonus selwynianus, Menops serotinus, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Menops walcotti, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops robustus, Brontops amplus, Brontops dispar
Type specimen: Amherst College Zoological Collection No. 327, a skeleton (mostly complete skeleton). Its type locality is Bear Creek (Middle Titanotherium Beds), which is in a Chadronian fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Bear Creek (Middle Titanotherium Beds)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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