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 angustigenis, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops riggsi, Megacerops syceras, Brontops dispar, Brontops amplus, Brontops robustus, Brontops brachycephalus, Allops crassicornus, Allops marshi, Haplacodon, Menops walcotti, Menops serotinus, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Brontotherium medium, Brontotherium dolichoceras, Brontotherium ramosum, Brontotherium rumelicum, Brontotherium hypoceras, Brontotherium tichoceras, Teleodus avus, Eotherium, Menodus giganteus, Menodus heloceras, Menodus montanus, Menodus proutii, Menodus varians, Menodus trigonoceras, Diploclonus tyleri, Diploclonus selwynianus, Diploclonus bicornutus
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Horsetail Creek (Eocene of Colorado)
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