Diagnosis: The specimen is a heavily worn right lower molar, M1; bunodont; enamel thick; four main cusps, opposite, not oblique in position; main cusps worn off so cusp arrangement is difficult to interpret; triangular in outline; apparently bracyo-lophiodont; wide anterior lingual cingulum; protoconid, though worn off , was evidently the largest cusp on the tooth, possibly it was conical and some what isolated, thoug not as much so as in Phenacodus nor as in Didolodus, thus being more of a lophiodont type.

Lophiodolodus chaparralensis was named by Stirton (1946). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is UCMP 37829, a tooth (Right Lower first molar), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Chaparral Alto San Jose, which is in a Miocene terrestrial breccia/claystone in the Barzalosa Formation of Colombia.