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, Titanops medius, Diploclonus amplus, Brontops dispar, Brontops validus, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops robustus, Brontops tyleri, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus angustigenis, Menodus tichoceras, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus giganteus, Menodus heloceras, Menodus torvus, Titanotherium proutii, Menops serotinus, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Menops walcotti, Menops varians, Symborodon trigonoceras, Symborodon ophryas, Anisacodon montanus, Allops crassicornus, Teleodus avus

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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