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