Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Full reference: H. F. Osborn. 1916. Two new Oligocene titanotheres. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35(40):1-4
Belongs to Megacerops according to H. F. Osborn 1916
See also Mader 1989 and Mader 1998
Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops angustigenis, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops syceras, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops robustus, Brontops amplus, Brontops dispar, Menops walcotti, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Menops serotinus, Allops crassicornus, Allops marshi, Haplacodon, Diploclonus selwynianus, Diploclonus tyleri, Diploclonus bicornutus, Menodus heloceras, Eotherium, Menodus proutii, Menodus montanus, Menodus giganteus, Menodus varians, Menodus trigonoceras, Menodus torvus, Teleodus avus, Brontotherium medium, Brontotherium ramosum, Brontotherium hypoceras, Brontotherium tichoceras, Brontotherium dolichoceras, Brontotherium rumelicum
Type specimen: Its type locality is Horsetail Creek, which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the White River Formation of Colorado
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Horsetail Creek
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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