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