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Protitanops

Extinct genus of mammals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Protitanops

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Protitanops is an extinct genus of brontotheriid odd-toed ungulate that lived during the Eocene in North America.

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Thumb — Life reconstruction of Protitanops curryi

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Distribution

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

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]

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