Protitanops
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| Protitanops | |
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| Protitanops clarnensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | †Brontotheriidae |
| Tribe: | †Brontotheriini |
| Subtribe: | †Brontotheriina |
| Infratribe: | †Brontotheriita |
| Genus: | †Protitanops Stock, 1936 |
| Species: | †P. curryi
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| †Protitanops curryi Stock, 1936
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Protitanops is an extinct genus of brontotheriid odd-toed ungulate that lived during the Eocene in North America.
Distribution
[edit]The genus is best known from the Western United States, especially in Death Valley, California, where the best specimens of the type species P. curryi have been found.[1] The species is also known from fossils found in Texas and Chihuahua in the region in and around Big Bend National Park.[2]
Description
[edit]Protitanops bore a strong resemblance to brontotheres in the genus Megacerops due to its knob-shaped horns. However, the position of the horns differed in Protitanops, in that they pointed straight up, rather than more forwards like in Megacerops.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Mihlbachler, Matthew C. "Species taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the Brontotheriidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (311). American Museum of Natural History. hdl:2246/5913. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- ^ Mihlbachler, Matthew C.; Prothero, Donald Ross (2021). "Eocene (Duchesnean and earliest Chadronian) brontotheres (Brontotheriidae), Protitanops curryi and cf. Parvicornus occidentalis, from west Texas and Mexico". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/944. Retrieved 6 October 2025 – via Palaeontologia Electronica.
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