Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Brontotherium bucco, Symborodon bucco, Titanotherium bucco
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1873. Synopsis of new Vertebrata from the Tertiary of Colorado obtained during the summer of 1873. Seventh Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories (extract)
Belongs to Megacerops according to H. F. Osborn 1929
See also Cope 1873, Hay 1902, Mader 1989, Mader 1998 and Osborn 1896
Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops elatus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops riggsi, Megacerops syceras, Allops crassicornus, Menops walcotti, Menops serotinus, Menops marshi, Menops varians, Menops bakeri, Menops crassicornis, Titanops medius, Titanotherium proutii, Teleodus avus, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus angustigenis, Menodus torvus, Menodus giganteus, Menodus heloceras, Menodus tichoceras, Symborodon trigonoceras, Symborodon ophryas, Anisacodon montanus, Brontops tyleri, Brontops robustus, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops dispar, Brontops validus, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops brachycephalus, Diploclonus amplus
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Horsetail Creek (Eocene of Colorado)
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