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 angustigenis, Megacerops assiniboiensis, 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 tyleri, Diploclonus selwynianus, Menops serotinus, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Menops walcotti, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops robustus, Brontops amplus, Brontops dispar
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Horsetail Creek (Eocene of Colorado)
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