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Teleoceras
Taxonomy
Teleoceras was named by Hatcher (1894).
It was assigned to Teleoceratinae by Hay (1902); to Rhinocerotidae by Hatcher (1894), Scott (1913), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Carroll (1988), Hulbert and Whitmore (2006) and Albright et al. (2019); and to Teleoceratini by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Prothero (1998), Prothero (2005), Gustafson (2012), Short et al. (2019) and May (2019).
It was assigned to Teleoceratinae by Hay (1902); to Rhinocerotidae by Hatcher (1894), Scott (1913), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Carroll (1988), Hulbert and Whitmore (2006) and Albright et al. (2019); and to Teleoceratini by Prothero and Schoch (1989), Prothero (1998), Prothero (2005), Gustafson (2012), Short et al. (2019) and May (2019).
Species
T. (Mesoceras), T. aepysoma, T. americanum, T. brachyrhinum, T. felicis, T. fossiger (syn. Aceratherium acutum), T. guymonense, T. hicksi (syn. T. yumensis, T. ocotensis, Peraceras ponderis, T. schultzi, Paraphelops rooksensis), T. major, T. medicornutum (syn. Aphelops planiceps, T. thomsoni, T. (Mesoceras) thomsoni), T. meridianum (syn. T. minor), T. proterum (syn. Eusyodon maximus), T. pugnator, T. snowi
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1886 | Eusyodon Leidy |
1894 | Teleoceras Hatcher p. 149 |
1902 | Teleoceras Hay p. 646 |
1913 | Teleoceras Scott p. 291 |
1927 | Paraphelops Lane p. 300 |
1981 | Teleoceras Thurmond and Jones p. 186 |
1988 | Teleoceras Carroll |
1989 | Teleoceras Prothero and Schoch p. 535 |
1998 | Teleoceras Prothero p. 601 |
2005 | Teleoceras Prothero p. 94 |
2006 | Teleoceras Hulbert and Whitmore p. 18 |
2012 | Teleoceras Gustafson |
2019 | Teleoceras Albright et al. p. 185 |
2019 | Teleoceras May |
2019 | Teleoceras Short et al. p. 188 |
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G. †Teleoceras Hatcher 1894
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Subg. †Teleoceras (Mesoceras) Cook 1930
†Teleoceras aepysoma Short et al. 2019
†Teleoceras americanum Yatkola and Tanner 1979
†Teleoceras brachyrhinum Prothero 2005
†Teleoceras felicis Freudenberg 1921
†Teleoceras guymonense Prothero 2005
†Teleoceras hicksi Cook 1927
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Invalid names: Paraphelops rooksensis Lane 1927 [synonym], Peraceras ponderis Cook 1930 [synonym], Teleoceras ocotensis Dalquest and Mooser 1980 [synonym], Teleoceras schultzi Tanner 1975 [synonym], Teleoceras yumensis Cook 1930 [synonym]
†Teleoceras major Hatcher 1894
†Teleoceras medicornutum Osborn 1904
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Invalid names: Aphelops planiceps Osborn 1904 [synonym], Teleoceras (Mesoceras) thomsoni Cook 1930 [synonym], Teleoceras thomsoni Cook 1930 [synonym]
†Teleoceras pugnator Matsumoto 1921
†Teleoceras snowi Fourtau 1918
Invalid names: Eusyodon Leidy 1886 [synonym], Paraphelops Lane 1927 [synonym]
Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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R. A. Short et al. 2019 | Retained characters from Prothero (2005:94): “medium- to large-sized teleoceratin rhinos with hypsodont teeth, strong antecrochets, greatly reduced premolars with dP1/ p1 lost and occasional loss of P2/p2, thick cement on teeth, narrow nasals with strongly downturned lateral edges, enlarged premaxilla and I1, broad zygomatic arches, flaring lambdoid crests (skull semicircular in posterior view)...lower tusk (i2) shaped like a teardrop in cross-section, and...bar- rel-shaped trunk.” Rejected characters from Pro- thero (2005) are provided in the remarks below. |
Measurements
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References: Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Prothero 1998, Lillegraven 1979 |
Age range: base of the Barstovian to the top of the Pliocene or 16.30000 to 2.58800 Ma
Collections (336 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Miocene | USA (California) | T. fossiger (19370) | |
Miocene | USA (South Dakota) | T. major (18038 18040) T. sp. (18182 18297) | |
Miocene | USA (New Mexico) | T. fossiger (19337) | |
Miocene | USA (Nevada) | Rhinocerotidae indet. (19129) T. fossiger (18841 18858) T. medicornutum (18989) T. sp. (18844 18852 18853 18856 18982 19053) | |
Miocene | USA (Montana) | T. fossiger (19038 19067) | |
Miocene | USA (Louisiana) | T. sp. (163791) | |
Miocene | USA (Nebraska) | T. medicornutum (18049) | |
Miocene | USA (Colorado) | T. sp. (18310) | |
Miocene | USA (Oklahoma) | T. sp. (18105) | |
Miocene | USA (Georgia) | T. sp. (18592) | |
Miocene | USA (Texas) | T. meridianum (18644) T. sp. (18339) | |
Miocene | Mexico (Chiapas) | T. sp. (18726) | |
Miocene | USA (Kansas) | T. sp. (18338) | |
Miocene | USA (Arizona) | T. sp. (19387) | |
Miocene | USA (Idaho) | T. sp. (19087) | |
Miocene | USA (Oregon) | T. fossiger (19089) | |
Miocene | Honduras (Lempira) | T. sp. (18723) | |
Hemingfordian | USA (Colorado) | Brachypotherium americanum (17965) T. medicornutum (17908) | |
Hemingfordian | USA (Nebraska) | T. americanum (17895 17902 17917 17920 17952 17961 17980 18000 18001 18012) T. medicornutum (17998 17999) T. thomsoni (17969) | |
Late/Upper Hemingfordian | USA (New Mexico) | T. brachyrhinum (19339) | |
Late/Upper Hemingfordian - Early/Lower Barstovian | USA (Nevada) | T. medicornutum (18866) | |
MN 4 | Egypt | T. snowi (53970) | |
Barstovian | USA (California) | T. mediocronutum (19542) | |
Barstovian | USA (New Mexico) | T. brachyrhinum (19520) T. sp., T. brachyrhinum (19535) | |
Barstovian | USA (Kansas) | T. fossiger (18360) | |
Barstovian | USA (Oregon) | T. medicornutum (19011 19092) | |
Barstovian | USA (Colorado) | T. medicornutum (18203) | |
Barstovian | USA (Texas) | Aphelops meridianus (18657) Rhinocerotidae indet. (18608 18627) Rhinocerotidae indet., Aphelops sp. (18619) T. medicornutum, Aphelops meridianus (18650) T. medicornutum, T. meridianum (18646 18673) T. meridianum (18637 18643 18660 18676 18696) | |
Barstovian | USA (South Dakota) | T. sp. (18117) | |
Barstovian | USA (Nevada) | T. medicornutum (18924 19103) T. sp. (19088 181731) | |
Barstovian | USA (Nebraska) | Rhinocerotidae indet. (18141) T. major (18165) T. medicornutum (18031 18090 18119 18125 18144 18153 18192 18206 18208 18209 18248 18275 18281 18284 18337 18343 18345 18361 18412 18442) T. sp. (18123 18124 18240 18332 18353 18443 18454) | |
Early/Lower Barstovian | USA (New Mexico) | T. brachyrhinum (19547) T. sp. (19611) | |
Early/Lower Barstovian | USA (Texas) | T. medicornutum (18674) T. medicornutum, T. meridianum (18665) T. meridianum (18661) | |
Early/Lower Barstovian | USA (Nebraska) | T. medicornutum (17880 17903 17904 17905 17955 17956 17972 17976 17983 17985 18004 18011 18019) | |
Barstovian - Clarendonian | USA (New Mexico) | T. brachyrhinum (19531) | |
Barstovian - Clarendonian | USA (Colorado) | T. sp. (18445) | |
Barstovian - Clarendonian | USA (Nebraska) | T. medicornutum (18270) T. sp. (18077) | |
Barstovian - Early/Lower Clarendonian | USA (New Mexico) | T. brachyrhinum (19286) | |
Clarendonian | USA (South Dakota) | T. fossiger (18268 18490) T. major (18200) T. sp. (18063 18428 18476 18478 18481 18485 18487 18492) | |
Clarendonian | USA (Texas) | T. fossiger (18355 18611) T. major (18098 18149 18244 18283 18347) T. sp. (18096 18610 18623 18640 18645) T. sp., Rhinocerotidae indet. (207452) | |
Clarendonian | USA (Nevada) | Rhinocerotidae indet. (18888) T. fossiger (19035) T. major (18845) | |
Clarendonian | USA (Nebraska) | T. fossiger (18226 18336) T. major (18037 18042 18060 18092 18099 18107 18118 18135 18171 18176 18178 18202 18214 18218 18222 18227 18229 18233 18245 18288 18294 18301 18321 18324 18335 18362 18366 18372 18378 18410 18425 18430 18447 18458 18496 188779) T. major, T. medicornutum (18217) T. medicornutum (18148 18242 18260 18465) T. sp. (18061 18082 18095 18108 18156 18159 18194 18221 18234 18243 18251 18315 18316 18328 18440 74098) | |
Clarendonian | USA (California) | T. meridianum (19323 19517) | |
Late/Upper Clarendonian | USA (Florida) | T. fossiger (18554) | |
Late/Upper Clarendonian | USA (New Mexico) | T. brachyrhinum (19528) | |
Late/Upper Clarendonian | USA (Kansas) | T. fossiger (110829) | |
Late/Upper Clarendonian | USA (Nebraska) | T. major (18066 18327) | |
Late/Upper Clarendonian | USA (Oregon) | T. sp. (19036) | |
Clarendonian - Hemphillian | USA (South Dakota) | T. major (18352) | |
Clarendonian - Hemphillian | USA (Washington) | T. major (175228) | |
Clarendonian - Hemphillian | USA (Oklahoma) | T. sp. (170187) | |
Clarendonian - Hemphillian | USA (Montana) | T. fossiger (18802) | |
Clarendonian - Hemphillian | USA (Nebraska) | T. fossiger (18181) T. hicksi (18438) T. major (18065 18069 18134 18236 18256 18295) T. sp. (18128 18180 18305 18326) | |
Clarendonian - Hemphillian | USA (Texas) | T. hicksi (18358) | |
Clarendonian - Hemphillian | USA (Wyoming) | T. sp. (18424) | |
Late/Upper Clarendonian - Hemphillian | USA (Texas) | T. fossiger (18307) | |
Late/Upper Clarendonian - late Early Hemphillian | USA (Nebraska) | T. sp. (18298) | |
Tortonian | USA (Florida) | T. hicksi (45456) T. proterum (18505) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | USA (Kansas) | T. fossiger (18462) | |
Hemphillian | USA (Nevada) | T. sp. (18900 19095) | |
Hemphillian | USA (Texas) | T. fossiger (18198) T. fossiger, T. hicksi (18072) T. hicksi, T. sp. (18097) T. sp. (18377) | |
Hemphillian | Mexico (Guanajuato) | T. sp. (18718) | |
Hemphillian | Mexico (Jalisco) | T. fossiger (189788 189790 232513) T. sp. (18745) | |
Hemphillian | USA (Colorado) | T. yumensis (18495) | |
Hemphillian | USA (New Mexico) | T. sp. (19186 19285 19533) | |
Hemphillian | USA (Washington) | T. sp. (19024) | |
Hemphillian | USA (California) | T. sp. (19447) | |
Hemphillian | USA (Alabama) | T. sp. (18559 81498) | |
Hemphillian | USA (Nebraska) | T. fossiger (18158 18225) T. hicksi (18033) T. major (18258) T. schultzi (18086) T. sp. (18441) | |
Hemphillian | Mexico (Hidalgo) | T. fossiger (212307) T. sp. (18746) | |
Hemphillian | USA (Oklahoma) | T. fossiger (18034) T. hicksi, T. sp. (18304) | |
Hemphillian | Honduras | T. fossiger (18736) T. sp. (18750) | |
Hemphillian | USA (Kansas) | T. fossiger (18140 18237 18263 18497) T. major (18415) T. sp. (18046 18055 18342 79633) | |
Hemphillian | USA (Oregon) | T. sp. (18806 18807 18833 18875 18940 18970 18999 19015 19116) | |
Hemphillian | Mexico | T. hicksi (181304) | |
Hemphillian | Mexico (Michoacán) | T. sp. (212337) | |
Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | Aphelops fossiger (216990) T. hicksi (18577) T. proterum (18560 18563) T. sp. (18556 18601 200705) | |
Hemphillian | USA (Montana) | T. fossiger (18870) | |
Hemphillian | USA (South Carolina) | T. guymonense (206999) | |
Hemphillian | Mexico (Nayarit) | T. fossiger (212338 212339) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian | Mexico (Guanajuato) | T. fossiger (18713 18740) T. ocotensis (18737) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian | Mexico (Chihuahua) | T. hicksi (18755) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (New Mexico) | T. hicksi, T. guymonense (169259) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Arizona) | T. sp. (19390) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (California) | T. fossiger (19582 19604) T. sp. (19445 175214 175215 175216 175217) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Nebraska) | T. sp. (18126 18247 18359) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | T. fossiger (18599) T. hicksi (18573) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Texas) | T. hicksi (18340) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Nevada) | T. fossiger (75859) T. sp. (19108 19109) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian | Canada (Alberta) | T. sp. (18780) | |
early Early Hemphillian - late Early Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | T. proterum (18539) | |
early Early Hemphillian - late Early Hemphillian | USA (Idaho) | T. fossiger (218109 218111) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian - Blancan | USA (Tennessee) | T. sp. (26574) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian - Blancan | USA (Indiana) | T. sp. (18320) | |
Pliocene | Ukraine (Odessa) | T. ponticus (76502) | |
Blancan | Mexico (Hidalgo) | T. fossiger (20079) | |
Blancan | USA (Washington) | T. hicksi (20063) | |
Blancan | USA (Nevada) | T. hicksi (19965) |