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Extinct genus of mammals
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Protitanops
Protitanops clarnensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: †Brontotheriidae
Tribe: †Brontotheriini
Subtribe: †Brontotheriina
Infratribe: †Brontotheriita
Genus: †Protitanops
Stock, 1936
Species: †P. curryi
Binomial name
†Protitanops curryi
Stock, 1936
Life reconstruction of Protitanops curryi

Protitanops curryi is an extinct species of brontothere that lived during the Eocene, in the Western United States, especially in Death Valley, California, where the best specimens of the species P. curryi have been found. It bore a strong resemblance to Megacerops brontotheres with 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.

References

  1. 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.
Perissodactyla
Perissodactyla
Incertae sedis
†Anthracobunia
†Anthracobunidae
†Cambaytheriidae
†Brontotheriidae
Equoidea
Equidae
†Palaeotheriidae
†Pachynolophinae
†Palaeotheriinae
†Hyopsodontidae?
†Phenacodontidae?
†Meniscotheriinae
†Phenacodontinae
Tapiromorpha
    • See below↓
Palaeotherium medium

Hyopsodus sp.

Meniscotherium chamense
Tapiromorpha
Incertae sedis
†Isectolophidae
†Homogalaxinae
†Isectolophinae
†Ancylopoda
Ceratomorpha
Tapiroidea
†Deperetellidae
†Helaletidae
Tapiridae
Rhinocerotoidea
    • See below↓
Heptodon posticus Tapirus augustus
Rhinocerotoidea
Rhinocerotoidea sensu lato
†Indolophidae
Rhinocerotoidea
sensu stricto
†Hyrachyidae
†Eggysodontidae
†Hyracodontidae
†Amynodontidae
†Amynodontinae
†Cadurcodontini
†Metamynodontini
†Paraceratheriidae
†Forstercooperiinae
†Paraceratheriinae
Rhinocerotidae
    • See below↓
Hyracodon nebraskensis Paraceratherium transouralicum
Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae
†Aceratheriinae
†Elasmotheriinae
†Diceratheriini
†Elasmotheriini
Rhinocerotinae
†Teleoceratini
Rhinocerotina
Dicerorhinini
Dicerotini
Rhinocerotini
Coelodonta antiquatis Elasmotherium caucasicum
Brontotheriidae
Basal brontotheres Megacerops coloradensis
Brontotheriinae
Brontotheriini
Embolotheriina
Brontotheriina
Taxon identifiers
Protitanops


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