Brontops
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| Brontops Temporal range: Late Eocene
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Brontops, BRON-tops ('thunder face') was an extinct genus of rhinoceros-like perissodactyl mammal.
A typical brontothere, Brontops was a huge rhinoceros-like creature standing 2.50 m (8 ft 4 in) tall at the shoulder. It looked similar to the better known Brontotherium, possessing the same pair of blunt, horn-like protrusions on its snout (but shorter). Partially healed rib fractures support the theory that males used these 'horns' to fight each other. No creature living in Brontops's time and area except another Brontops could have inflicted such an injury. The breathing movements prevented the fractures from completely healing.
According to Mihlbachler et al. 2004, Brontops was subsumed into genus Megacerops.
External links
Reconstruction of B. dispar [1]
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