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Brontops tyleri
Taxonomy
Megacerops tyleri was named by Lull (1905). Its type specimen is Amherst College Zoological Collection No. 327, a skeleton (mostly complete skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bear Creek (Middle Titanotherium Beds), which is in a Chadronian fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota.
It was recombined as Diploclonus tyleri by Osborn (1929); it was recombined as Brontops tyleri by Mader (1989) and Mader (1998).
It was recombined as Diploclonus tyleri by Osborn (1929); it was recombined as Brontops tyleri by Mader (1989) and Mader (1998).
Synonymy list
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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.
†Brontops tyleri Lull 1905
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available