Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Full reference: O. A. Peterson. 1913. A new species of Moropus (M. Hollandi) from the base of the middle Miocene of western Nebraska. Science 38:673
Belongs to Moropus according to O. A. Peterson 1913
Sister taxa: Moropus betpakdalensis, Moropus distans, Moropus elatus, Moropus matthewi, Moropus maximus, Moropus merriami, Moropus oregonensis, Moropus senex
Type specimen: Carnegie Museum Collection No. 1424, a set of limb elements (radius, ulna, femur, tibia, fragment of fibula, and partial fore and hind feet). Its type locality is Niobrara Canyon, which is in a Harrisonian terrestrial horizon in the Marsland Formation of Nebraska.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Harrisonian of United States (3: Nebraska, Wyoming collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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