Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Allops walcotti, Menodus walcotti
Full reference: H. F. Osborn. 1916. Two new Oligocene titanotheres. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35(40):1-4
Belongs to Menops according to B. J. Mader 1998
See also Clark and Beerbower 1967, Mader 1989 and Osborn 1916
Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops elatus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops riggsi, Megacerops syceras, Menodus heloceras, Menodus angustigenis, Menodus tichoceras, Menodus giganteus, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus torvus, Menodus hypoceras, Diploclonus amplus, Teleodus avus, Menops marshi, Menops serotinus, Menops bakeri, Menops crassicornis, Menops varians, Titanops medius, Titanotherium proutii, Symborodon trigonoceras, Symborodon ophryas, Anisacodon montanus, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops tyleri, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops robustus, Brontops dispar, Brontops validus, Allops crassicornus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Corral Draw (Lower Titanotherium Beds), which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Corral Draw (Lower Titanotherium Beds)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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