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 assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops elatus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops syceras, Diploclonus amplus, Brontops validus, Brontops tyleri, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops robustus, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops dispar, Symborodon trigonoceras, Symborodon ophryas, Anisacodon montanus, Titanotherium proutii, Menodus heloceras, Menodus angustigenis, Menodus giganteus, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus torvus, Menodus tichoceras, Menodus dolichoceras, Menops bakeri, Menops varians, Menops marshi, Menops crassicornis, Menops walcotti, Menops serotinus, Teleodus avus, Titanops medius, Allops crassicornus
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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