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, Teleodus avus, Titanotherium proutii, Menops marshi, Menops varians, Menops walcotti, Menops serotinus, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Menodus tichoceras, Menodus giganteus, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus heloceras, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus torvus, Menodus angustigenis, Titanops medius, Allops crassicornus, Brontops tyleri, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops dispar, Brontops validus, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops robustus, Symborodon ophryas, Symborodon trigonoceras, Anisacodon montanus, Diploclonus amplus
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Peanut Peak (Eocene of South Dakota)
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