Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Brontotherium curtum, Titanops curtus, Titanotherium curtum
Synonym: Menodus peltoceras Cope 1891
Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1887. Notice of new fossil mammals. American Journal of Science 34(202):323-331
Belongs to Megacerops according to B. J. Mader 1998
See also Cope 1891, Hay 1902, Mader 1989, Mader and Alexander 1995, Marsh 1887, Osborn 1896, Osborn 1902 and Osborn 1929
Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops elatus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops riggsi, Megacerops syceras, Symborodon ophryas, Symborodon trigonoceras, Anisacodon montanus, Teleodus avus, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Menops serotinus, Menops walcotti, Menops marshi, Menops varians, Diploclonus amplus, Brontops tyleri, Brontops dispar, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops validus, Brontops robustus, Brontops selwynianus, Allops crassicornus, Menodus tichoceras, Menodus angustigenis, Menodus torvus, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus giganteus, Menodus heloceras, Titanops medius, Titanotherium proutii
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Peanut Peak (Eocene of South Dakota)
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