Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combination: Menodus bakeri
Full reference: J. W. Stovall. 1948. Chadron vertebrate fossils from below the Rim Rock of Presidio County, Texas. American Journal of Science 246(2):75-95
Belongs to Menops according to B. J. Mader 1998
See also Mader 1989 and Stovall 1948
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 brachycephalus, Brontops robustus, Brontops amplus, Brontops dispar, Menops walcotti, Menops crassicornis, 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 Big Red Horizon (Main Fossil Level), which is in a Duchesnean terrestrial horizon in the Chambers Tuff Formation of Texas
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (4: Texas collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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