Menops serotinus Marsh 1887 (brontothere)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae

Alternative combinations: Allops serotinus, Megacerops serotinus, Menodus serotinus, Titanotherium serotinum

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1887. Notice of new fossil mammals. American Journal of Science 34(202):323-331

Belongs to Menops according to B. J. Mader 1998

See also Clark and Beerbower 1967, Hay 1902, Mader 1989, Marsh 1887 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, Brontops tyleri, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops validus, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops dispar, Brontops robustus, Teleodus avus, Titanops medius, Titanotherium proutii, Allops crassicornus, Symborodon trigonoceras, Symborodon ophryas, Anisacodon montanus, Menops marshi, Menops varians, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Menops walcotti, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus tichoceras, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus angustigenis, Menodus torvus, Menodus heloceras, Menodus giganteus, Diploclonus amplus

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: found only at Peanut Peak

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