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

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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