Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combination: Ateleodon osborni
Full reference: E. M. Schlaikjer. 1935. Contributions to the Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of the Goshen Hole Area, Wyoming. III. A New Basal Oligocene Formation. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 76(3):71-93
Belongs to Megacerops according to A. J. Kihm 1987
See also Schlaikjer 1935
Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops elatus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops riggsi, Megacerops syceras, Diploclonus amplus, Brontops validus, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops dispar, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops robustus, Brontops tyleri, Teleodus avus, Titanops medius, Menodus giganteus, Menodus tichoceras, Menodus heloceras, Menodus torvus, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus angustigenis, Menodus dolichoceras, Allops crassicornus, Menops varians, Menops marshi, Menops serotinus, Menops walcotti, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Titanotherium proutii, Symborodon ophryas, Symborodon trigonoceras, Anisacodon montanus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Yoder, which is in a Chadronian terrestrial siltstone/sandstone in the Chadron Formation of Wyoming
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Yoder
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