Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Symborodon torrus, Symborodon torvus, Titanotherium torvum
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1873. Second notice of extinct Vertebrata from the Tertiary of the Plains. Paleontological Bulletin 15:1-6
Belongs to Menodus according to H. F. Osborn 1929
See also Clark and Beerbower 1967, Cope 1873, Cope 1873, Hay 1902, Mader 1989, Mader 1998 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 marshi, Menops varians, Menops serotinus, Menops walcotti, Teleodus avus, Titanops medius, Titanotherium proutii, Menodus angustigenis, Menodus tichoceras, Menodus hypoceras, Menodus dolichoceras, Menodus giganteus, Menodus heloceras, Symborodon trigonoceras, Symborodon ophryas, Anisacodon montanus, Diploclonus amplus, Allops crassicornus, Brontops bicornutus, Brontops robustus, Brontops tyleri, Brontops dispar, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops selwynianus, Brontops validus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Horsetail Creek, which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the White River Formation of Colorado
Distribution: found only at Horsetail Creek
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