Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Symborodon torrus, Symborodon torvus, Titanotherium torvum
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1873. Second notice of extinct Vertebrata from the Tertiary of the Plains. Paleontological Bulletin 15:1-6
Belongs to Menodus according to H. F. Osborn 1929
See also Clark and Beerbower 1967, Cope 1873, Cope 1873, Hay 1902, Mader 1989, Mader 1998 and Osborn 1896
Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops elatus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops riggsi, Megacerops syceras, Teleodus avus, Titanotherium proutii, Menops marshi, Menops varians, Menops walcotti, Menops serotinus, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Menodus tichoceras, Menodus giganteus, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus heloceras, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus angustigenis, Titanops medius, Allops crassicornus, Brontops tyleri, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops dispar, Brontops validus, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops robustus, Symborodon ophryas, Symborodon trigonoceras, Anisacodon montanus, Diploclonus amplus
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Horsetail Creek (Eocene of Colorado)
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