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 angustigenis, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops riggsi, Megacerops syceras, Allops crassicornus, Allops marshi, Haplacodon, Brontotherium tichoceras, Brontotherium dolichoceras, Brontotherium medium, Brontotherium ramosum, Brontotherium rumelicum, Brontotherium hypoceras, Teleodus avus, Menodus giganteus, Menodus proutii, Eotherium, Menodus torvus, Menodus varians, Menodus montanus, Menodus heloceras, Menodus trigonoceras, Diploclonus bicornutus, Diploclonus tyleri, Diploclonus selwynianus, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Menops walcotti, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops robustus, Brontops amplus, Brontops dispar
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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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