Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Alternative combinations: Megacerops avus, Titanotherium avum
Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1890. Notice of new Tertiary mammals. American Journal of Science 39:523-525
Belongs to Teleodus according to H. F. Osborn 1929
See also Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Lucas and Schoch 1982, Marsh 1890, Osborn 1896, Osborn 1902 and Scott 1945
Sister taxa: Megacerops acer, Megacerops angustigenis, Megacerops assiniboiensis, Megacerops bucco, Megacerops coloradensis, Megacerops copei, Megacerops curtus, Megacerops kuwagatarhinus, Megacerops osborni, Megacerops riggsi, Megacerops syceras, Allops crassicornus, Allops marshi, Haplacodon, Brontotherium tichoceras, Brontotherium dolichoceras, Brontotherium medium, Brontotherium ramosum, Brontotherium rumelicum, Brontotherium hypoceras, Menodus giganteus, Menodus proutii, Eotherium, Menodus torvus, Menodus varians, Menodus montanus, Menodus heloceras, Menodus trigonoceras, Diploclonus bicornutus, Diploclonus tyleri, Diploclonus selwynianus, Menops serotinus, Menops crassicornis, Menops bakeri, Menops walcotti, Brontops brachycephalus, Brontops robustus, Brontops amplus, Brontops dispar
Type specimen: Its type locality is 5 miles west of Cheyenne River midway bn. French & Battle Creek, which is in a Chadronian terrestrial marl in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at 5 miles west of Cheyenne River midway bn. French & Battle Creek
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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