Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Alternative combinations: Colodon hancocki, Protapirus hancocki
Full reference: L. B. Radinsky. 1963. Origin and Early Evolution of North American Tapiroidea. Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 17:1-118
Belongs to Plesiocolopirus according to L. T. Holbrook 1999
See also Albright 1998, Colbert and Schoch 1998, Hanson 1996, Radinsky 1963 and Schoch 1989
Sister taxa: Plesiocolopirus grangeri, Plesiocolopirus kushiroensis
Type specimen: UOMNH 20377, a partial skull (anterior part of a skull with left P1'-M3)
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (3: Oregon, Texas collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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