Menops marshi Osborn 1902 (brontothere)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae

Alternative combinations: Allops marshi, Megacerops marshi

Full reference: H. F. Osborn. 1902. The four phyla of Oligocene titanotheres. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 16(8):91-109

Belongs to Menops according to B. J. Mader 1998

See also Mader 1989, Osborn 1902 and Osborn 1929

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Peanut Peak, which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (3: South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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