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Menoceras
Taxonomy
Menoceras was named by Troxell (1921). It is not extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Diceratherium by Matthew (1931); it was reranked as Diceratherium (Menoceras) by Wood (1964).
It was assigned to Diceratherium by Wood (1964); to Rhinocerotidae by Troxell (1921), Tanner (1969), Wilson and Schiebout (1981), Prothero and Manning (1987), Carroll (1988) and Prothero et al. (1989); to Menoceratinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Prothero (1998) and Prothero (2005); and to Menoceratina by Antoine et al. (2010).
It was synonymized subjectively with Diceratherium by Matthew (1931); it was reranked as Diceratherium (Menoceras) by Wood (1964).
It was assigned to Diceratherium by Wood (1964); to Rhinocerotidae by Troxell (1921), Tanner (1969), Wilson and Schiebout (1981), Prothero and Manning (1987), Carroll (1988) and Prothero et al. (1989); to Menoceratinae by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Prothero (1998) and Prothero (2005); and to Menoceratina by Antoine et al. (2010).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1921 | Menoceras Troxell |
| 1964 | Diceratherium (Menoceras) Wood p. 378 |
| 1969 | Moschoedestes Stevens |
| 1969 | Moschoedestes Stevens et al. p. 23 |
| 1969 | Menoceras Tanner |
| 1981 | Menoceras Wilson and Schiebout |
| 1987 | Menoceras Prothero and Manning |
| 1988 | Menoceras Carroll |
| 1989 | Menoceras Prothero et al. |
| 1989 | Menoceras Prothero and Schoch p. 535 |
| 1998 | Menoceras Prothero p. 600 |
| 2005 | Menoceras Prothero p. 59 |
| 2010 | Menoceras Antoine et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Menoceras Troxell 1921
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†Menoceras arikarense Barbour 1906
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Invalid names: Aceratherium stigeri Loomis 1908 [synonym], Diceratherium aberrans Loomis 1908 [synonym], Diceratherium loomisi Cook 1912 [synonym], Diceratherium schiffi Loomis 1908 [synonym], Menoceras cooki Peterson 1906 [synonym]
†Menoceras barbouri Wood 1964
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Invalid names: Menoceras falkenbachi Tanner 1972 [synonym], Menoceras marslandensis Tanner 1969 [synonym], Moschoedestes delahoensis Stevens et al. 1969 [synonym]
Invalid names: Moschoedestes Stevens et al. 1969 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range: base of the Aquitanian to the top of the Harrisonian or 23.03000 to 18.50000 Ma
Collections (54 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Arikareean | USA (Wyoming) | M. cooki (17472 17667) | |
| Harrisonian | USA (Texas) | Moschoedestes delahoensis (17770 17771) | |
| Harrisonian | USA (Florida) | M. cooki (18557) | |
| Harrisonian | USA (Nebraska) | Diceratherium arikarense, Diceratherium cooki, Diceratherium loomisi (17741) Diceratherium cooki (17818) Diceratherium petersoni (17778) M. arikarense, M. barbouri (17805) M. sp. (17789 17819 28043) Rhinocerotidae indet. (17845) | |
| Harrisonian | USA (Wyoming) | M. arikarense (17793 17833 17835 17840 17854) M. sp. (17788 17796) | |
| Aquitanian | USA (California) | M. sp. (19485) | |
| Miocene | USA (Texas) | M. barbouri (18679) | |
| Miocene | Mexico (Aguascalientes) | Aphelops sp. (18756) | |
| Miocene | USA (New Mexico) | M. marslandense (19562) | |
| Miocene | USA (Wyoming) | M. arikarense (18407) | |
| Early/Lower Hemingfordian | Panama (Panama City) | M. barbouri (144879) | |
| Early/Lower Hemingfordian | USA (New Mexico) | M. barbouri (19188 19388) | |
| Early/Lower Hemingfordian | USA (Nebraska) | M. barbouri (17881 17891 17898 17978 17989 18005) M. marslandense (17927) M. marslandensis (17949) | |
| Early/Lower Hemingfordian | USA (Texas) | M. barbouri (18694 18711) | |
| Early/Lower Hemingfordian | Panama | Diceratherium sp. (18725) | |
| Early/Lower Hemingfordian | USA (California) | M. barbouri (167840 167841) | |
| Early/Lower Hemingfordian | USA (New Jersey) | M. cooki (17910) | |
| Hemingfordian | USA (Colorado) | M. barbouri (17965) | |
| Hemingfordian | USA (Florida) | Diceratherium barbouri (18597) Rhinocerotidae indet. (18586) | |
| Hemingfordian | USA (Wyoming) | M. sp. (17953 17994) | |
| Hemingfordian | USA (Texas) | M. barbouri (18635) Rhinocerotidae indet. (18626) | |
| Hemingfordian | USA (South Dakota) | M. barbouri (17912) | |
| Hemingfordian | USA (Nebraska) | M. barbouri (17896 17982) | |
| Hemingfordian | USA (California) | M. falkenbachi (19358) M. sp. (19233) |