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, Titanotherium proutii, Brontops robustus, Brontops validus, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops tyleri, Brontops dispar, Teleodus avus, Titanops medius, Diploclonus amplus, Allops crassicornus, Menops bakeri, Menops walcotti, Menops crassicornis, Menops serotinus, Menops varians, Menops marshi, Symborodon ophryas, Symborodon trigonoceras, Anisacodon montanus, Menodus heloceras, Menodus tichoceras, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus angustigenis, Menodus giganteus, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus torvus
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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